Interestingly enough, I have been thinking along very similar lines recently.

I think that many newer christians start out with a great deal of ground to cover. Emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. I wonder if perhaps the more introspective operational theologies that we see in the church today are a result of a desire to keep moving at the same exciting pace without really having anywhere to go. Thus, we end up become obsessed with getting a bigger and bigger high, or delve deeper and deeper into intellectual study, or we just go all flaky. Perhaps the answer is to recognise that we are now mature enough to start the real work of imitating christ.