Kids intuitively understand the freedom required to make room for the Holy Spirit, until it is successfully beaten out of them.
Adolescence is a last ditch effort to claim it before losing it.
The Mid-life crisis is an effort to reclaim it after having lost it.
“[Some] movements require...their... members to accept some kind of Rule Book or written instructions for their perpetual guidance; but any such thing is quite fatal, because it automatically shuts out the action of the Holy Spirit... You must always be perfectly free at any moment to conduct the affairs of your soul as the action of Divine Wisdom may lead you; to pray or not to pray, to pray in this way or that way, and for this or that purpose; to read or not to read any book; to attend or not to attend any church or meeting, as you may feel led.”
- Sermon On The Mount, by Emmet Fox, p.71.