Have you ever felt like taking a vacation from church? After a conflict, did you decide not to go back to church? Have you left the fellowship of the brothers and sisters? Have you ceased from the work of God? Have you been in a cave, claiming to be the very last one left of all those serving God? Are you afraid to come out?
When I became a believer a decade ago, I had put everyone in a neat schema, a properly placed category in my mind, and had figured that the church life would be a contemporary of Disneyland; the happiest place, and all that. Shortly after, I became disillusioned; and wallowing in my disappointment in man (not God), my disillusionment had turned from a lack of illusion to darkness.
Why had I become disillusioned? I had forgotten one important factor. We are all in a process of transformation. In English the -ion suffix signifies a process—we are all being changed and when He appears we will be like Him, but not before. I suppose my expectations were far higher than were realistic—even for a believer aiming at perfection in Christ. A study of Ephesians, viewing the church-life from Heaven’s perspective, often causes us to expect everyone to be on the exact same walk at the same place as us: and we never sin—right?
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