When First Love Dies, Christianity Doesn't Go Away, Right?

I just read an article about Warfield yesterday on the kind of house of some theology is essential to preaching. And even though I ended up not really agreeing with a lot of what he said, I really appreciated what he was doing. You get this in so many different areas of Christian life,. Some people shy away from any kind of systematic, any dogmatic formulation because it smacks of formalism. So for them, like anything, it's just that outward cold orthodoxy without any zeal for the Lord without that first love.