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Blow Up, Dry Up, or Grow Up

If you have the Spirit without the Word, you blow up. If you have the Word without the Spirit, you dry up. If you have both the Word and the Spirit, you grow up.

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We Need Both the Word and the Spirit

In his book I Believe in the Church, David Watson writes:

All Word and no Spirit, we dry up; all Spirit and no Word, we blow up; both Word and Spirit, we grow up.
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