Perfectionism and the Second Blessing

by Mike Ratliff I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. (1 Corinthians 15:50 ESV) It is a very dangerous thing to interpret things extra-biblically that occur in our spiritual growth. For instance, in my own walk I was in a very stagnant spiritual state for over a decade from around  1990 until 2004. I had some growth spurts during that time, but they were always followed by years of mediocrity. Then in 2