As elders and teachers of the Word of God, we need to be careful about trying to hype up the Christian life to an unatainable ideal. Consider Mark Galli’s observations that are well-worth contemplating:
"So many Christian teachers oversell, and therefore inevitably underdeliver—or better, put God in the position where he will underdeliver. I suspect that in many cases, they are merely using hyperbole to drive home a point, but I’m convinced that readers and listeners take such exaggerations literally because they desperately want them to be true. But there is no way anyone can "live each day in wild amazement of God," or that each of us can "flourish and thrive in this world here and now as we become more and more everything we can possibly be." Such experiences happen now and then in this life, but will be fully realized only when sin and death have been defeated and love and peace reign in the coming kingdom, when finally every tear is wiped away, when we see God face to face (Rev. 21)." Mark Galli in "Christianity Today."