The case of the church is parallel to that of the individual Christian. When we look at one another, each sees the other person in his unaesthetic twentieth-century garb, with annoying mannerisms and wrinkling skin, trifocal spectacles, balding pate, hoarse voice, and the symptoms and syndromes of the ailments he describes. This person will be completely different in the resurrection, so completely different that our experience furnishes no basis, according to the Scriptures, for imagining, what he will be - or what even in this moment he really is in the sight of the heavenly Father, who, as he looks upon that person, sees him "in Christ." -- A. C. Piepkorn, *The Church* p. 49
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