If a church is really a church and Christ is really among them, then He will be like a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver and will refine His people like gold.19 However, if the godless remain in the congregation without Christ’s intervention, it is evidence that their candlestick has been removed and the church is no longer a church. Ichabod has been written over the door, for the glory of the Lord has departed.20
