The phrase, “Beauty in the eye of the beholder” is something that we see particularly when it comes to our perspective of the church and God’s perspective of the church. From our perspective, we see a lot of faults and problems. We look at ourselves or the church and we see failure, we see division, we see sinfulness, we see selfishness and we see little glory and yet from God’s perspective, he sees something that is glorious and precious and valuable.