Prince did a very good job discussing the fruit and tree relationship. You just don’t hear many sermons on holiness these days. I heard an Army chaplain once say “they are the 10 commandments not the 10 guidelines.”
The problem is, in these meetings where all this stuff, tongues, slain in the spirit, “healings”, shaking, etc, are manifest, people are being taught, and have come to believe, that that IS the fruit of the Spirit.
They are confusing the manifestations with the fruit. The fruit isn’t the showy stuff. It’s what happens internally, and after all the show is over and everyone goes their way, there’s simple precious little that can be done to see the fruit of all this.
What I know is that in one charismatic church I attended, the same people were going forward and dropping on an almost weekly basis. You know who was going to go up and go down.
And I have not noticed any significant change in then spiritually. For all the deliverance some of them have been through, they still have the same problems.
I got filled with the Spirit one night at home alone, after praying and dealing with some forgiveness issues. No tongues, no slain in the Spirit, but my life has not been the same since then. It was as dramatic a change as my salvation experience.