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It's the question travelling parents the world over dread, along with the inevitable follow up: "How much longer?" If the last year and a half have been good for anything, they've certainly been good for begging questions. Especially these two. Well, I have good news, and also some not so welcome news for you. No, we're not there yet, not by a long shot. But it's okay. Jesus is along for the journey, and when we do arrive at the destination, we will have been transformed. We won't be different people, but rather whole-hearted, healed, fully matured versions of ourselves. And we're gonna look an awful lot like Jesus. The Bible uses a Greek word translated interchangably as "maturity" or "perfection" to describe this destination: "Telios"In fact, during His sermon on the mount, Jesus says telios is the point. Throughout the New Testament, this word gets used over and over again as the object of our followership of Jesus. Maybe it's time we talked about where the "there" in question, is.τελειοσ     Pronounciation :  tel'-i-osDefinition: 1) brought to its end, finished 2) wanting nothing necessary to completeness 3) perfect 4) that which is perfect 4a) consummate human integrity and virtue 4b) of men 4b1) full grown, adult, of full age, matureτελοσ     Pronounciation:  tel'-osDefinition: 1) end 1a) termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time) 1b) the end 1b1) the last in any succession or series 1b2) eternal 1c) that by which a thing is finished, its close, issue 1d) the end to which all things relate, the aim, purpose