What Paul is saying here is that the preaching of the gospel to simple or more "complicated" men fails in both cases if it does not include a demonstration of the Christian life, if it does not include the work of the Holy Spirit...
...Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment...
This experiential result, however, is not just a bare experience of supernaturalism, without content, without our being able to describe and communicate it. It is a much more. It is a moment by moment, increasing, experiential relationship to Christ and the whole Trinity. The doors are open now - the intellectual doors, and also the doors to reality.
In the light of the unity of the Bible's teaching in regard to the supernatural nature of the universe, the how is the power of the crucified and the risen Christ, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit, by faith.
TS, pp61&62
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