From Chapter Two, Why You Don't Have to Believe Your Intuitions Are the Holy Spirit: Or, How the Spirit Shapes Our Hearts.
So the fruit of the Holy Spirit is a sanctified heart. And the intuitions of a sanctified heart are well worth listening to. To listen to the sanctified heart -- which normally means hearing what other Christians have to say -- is to benefit from the fruit of the Spirit in them. It is not to hear the Spirit's voice directly -- for again, the voices belong to human beings, even when what they are saying, teaching, or preaching is the word of God. But it is to hear the fruit of the Spirit's work, growing from the freedom of a heart shaped by Christian virtues.
The connection between the intuitions and the sanctified heart is essential. Intuitions coming from a heart that has not been formed in Christian virtue are not spiritual -- not in the biblical sense, which is always tied to the Holy Spirit and therefore to the holiness of Christian virtues. And that leads us to one of the deepest errors of the new evangelical theology. It teaches people to identify their intuitions as the Spirit speaking, without teaching them the virtues that are the real fruit of the Spirit working within. It tries to find the voice of God in the intuitions of the unsanctified heart.
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