We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.