The Personal God as Holy Spirit

It matters that God as Holy Spirit is a personality rather than an object not merely for doctrinal reasons, but for practical ones too. In John 14 Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit with the personal pronoun and in doing so broke the rules of greek grammar - the 'spirit' in greek should be neuter - so it must matter!

When we treat the Spirit as an object we fall into some equal but opposite heresy. Either we fear the influence of the Holy Spirit or we concentrate too much on His benefits, loving the power instead of the Person. Both the fascination with the power of God in the charismatic church and the relegation of the Holy Spirit to less than God is in the conservative church are unhealthy and unbalanced. 

They arguably come from the same place too; a failure to recognise that the Holy Spirit is a Personality who is God Himself.