-ation to -ation...

There are a couple of other questions listed before this one, but this was the one that was interesting to me:

Studying Scripture can simply increase our information. How do we move from information to transformation?

I wish I knew the answer to that question. Though, I think there's a lot wrapped up in that one question; like a lot of sub-questions. :)

How much do we already know (or feel super-strongly) to be true, but it doesn't penetrate our life in any material way?
That's a harsh way of putting it. I think there are a lot of things that I feel like, I constantly relearn and I remind myself I should already know.

Why not? Do we not believe it enough? Or, have we heard it so much that we've become innured to it?
This happens to me to. Where, I hear a message so much, it loses its potency.

Are our expectations wrong? Do we have an unrealistic expectation that transformation should be immediate and complete?
Whether it's through age or sermons or what have you, I've slowly come around to the idea that, we're all constant works in progress. In some sense, I think Christian spiritual growth is the same as everything else I've found to be a worthwhile pursuit; it just takes time, it's gradual. It doesn't just happen overnight. The analogy breaks down in that, with other things, hard work is the main/sometimes only ingredient in what accomplishes the desired result; not so with deeper/stronger faith.

For me, I also think that for a long time, I held Christ at an impersonal arm's length. Checking my most personal, uncomfortable baggage at the door when I approached Him.

I could nod with the pithy truth seriously intoned in the sermon or come up with the right conclusion to the small group question. But approaching a relationship with Christ in that way really just cheated me... In the end, I'm still trying to answer the original question, I think, by trying to open myself, warts and all, more completely to Him...