chad wright pittman

I took a break from our Hebrews series at Bloom last night to give a talk on something that I think is crucially important for our growth – experiences of disillusionment.

Most of us run and hide from experiences or seasons of disillusionment, or at the very least seek to minimize them.  Whilst we are in them, we treat ourselves as “sick” on some level… “patients” in need of healing.  Disillusionment is a condition to be avoided.  You will be hard pressed to find a church in which a person gets up and gives a testimony in which they cry, “Praise the Lord, I’m not sure what I believe anymore…look what the Lord has done!!”

But the nature of the case with God is that while we can know him TRULY, we can never know him EXHAUSTIVELY.  We create images in our minds of what God is like and…