A Christian church built on ‘feel-good’ preaching alone or on blessed charismatic experiences is like a body without a skeleton.
Sound Bible Truth holds these things in place.
Or, to change the analogy, experience alone is like a superstructure without below ground but necessary infrastructure. Paul’s pastoral letters to the church in Corinth warned that his successors could not lay again the foundation, which was Jesus Christ and him alone.
Or to change the analogy yet again, if we enjoy splashing around in the spiritual pond — and who doesn’t — knowing the basics of Who and What and Where we are in Christ enables us to swim like fish in the pool of spiritual experience rather than floating around it like jellyfish.