As such, it focused on one aspect of the wide-ranging subject of deciding whether to remain in a particular fellowship, while necessarily leaving other aspects unexamined. No doubt there are valid reasons to leave one fellowship and go to another. My particular concern in the article was an increasingly common notion that the Christian's experience in church is supposed to be consistently painless, fulfilling and pleasant. This dangerously untrue idea leads some Christians on a quest to discover the Ideal Church, where they expect to be perfectly fulfilled. But there is no such church.
All churches are flawed in some way or other.
The Faith must be fought for and defended in every fellowship. My article was written to exhort Christians to shoulder their burdens and defend the faith where they are rather than seeking an easier place. It was my intent that my article might be taken as counsel, rather than as command. I found Packer's dealing with the subject of the Holy Spirit and, especially the Charismatic movement to be truly illuminating. The devotionals, I find, are very interesting.