Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence

The media often exposes, almost with glee, Christians whohave fallen from grace. It seems that Christians are supposedto discard humanness and acquire immunity to worldliness. Ingodly wisdom, the book of Matthew, chapter 13 explains that therewill always be tare that grows among the wheat. The church is oftenthought to be a congregation of perfect, unspotted people. But thetruth of the matter is that congregations often consist of those who lieand commit adultery, alcoholics, and many who are guilty of worldlysins. Congregations are unperfected sinners who are saved by grace.Perfection comes a long way down the Christian path, and only throughthe grace of God. I am a common everyday Christian who has fallenshort enough to know that only when this life is over, and only whenwe are in the presence of a perfect God, will we be able to claim theability to walk totally sinless. Until the day we stand in the presence ofa perfect God, we will stand imperfect. In that day, we will be like him.