J.I. Packer gave a good reason why he saw people leave the church in 1973: "[Modern Christians] spawn great thoughts about man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God... Clear sighted persons, seeing this, are tempted to withdraw from churches in something like disgust to pursue a quest for God on their own. Nor can one wholly blame them, for churchmen who look at God, so to speak, through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians, and clear-sighted people naturally want something better than this."
• I'm sure you know people like this. You might even be one of these 'clear sighted persons' yourself.
• A Christian's pursuit must be to know God... more and more. When a church fails to do this, we are merely performing worthless religion.
• Just listen to Col 1:15-20 and allow these words to expand your idea of who Jesus Christ is.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Colossians 1:15-20
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, we must confess that we do not worship you for who you are, but as we imagine you to be. Even those of us that think we are 'clear sighted' loose sight of who you are as revealed in your Word through your Spirit. Please forgive us and reveal yourself more and more to us more. Amen.
Regards
Kruger
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