AID FOR ACHING HEARTS
Dropouts are those who, like the missionaries’ son from my college days, suffer acutely from the double vision — so much so that they finally give up trying to reconcile it. They do not make speeches or lead groups out of the church. They just disappear. They joined the church with aching hearts; they disappear with aching hearts. They may put the blame on hypocrisy or legalism or fundamentalism or other catch words, but they leave because they did not find in church what they hoped for. It didn’t work, and nobody in the church seemed to even recognize their problem. Either all those people are phonies, the dropout thinks, or something is wrong with me. For some reason God has not chosen to make himself real to me. From Knowing the Face of God, by Tim Stafford, page 26
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