I attend regular, normal churches -- Baptists, EV Free, Four Square, Assembly of God -- that sort of thing. Absolutely no one I know believes that the Spirit's presense in our lives supercedes the need for exegetical and contextual studies.
Are you sure that you have discussed this with everyone in these Christian sects?
Bring up 1 John 2:27 to those in the Foursquare and Assembly of God churches, and you might find some who would believe that while exegetical and contextual studies are helpful, they are superceded by the Spirit's presence in our lives. The foundation of the Foursquare church was through the revelatory experiences of a professed atheist woman named Aimee Semple McPherson. She was not converted through studies, but through revelation and a supernatural conversion experience. Her legacy included Bible colleges and radio broadcasts, but the thrust of the revival she spawned certainly emphasized the anointing of the Spirit rather than exegetical and contextual studies. I was a Foursquare church member for a year when I lived in California, and I believe that the Spirit's presence is much more important than any intellectual studies.
1 John 2:27
(27) But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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