Grow Up and Get A Life
Sermon delivered by Doug Giles at Liberty Fellowship, Wimberley Texas
We’re called into maturity as Christians. It’s no more optional than growing into maturity from being a toddler.
When a kid fails to advance through the stages of growth, doctors call it retardation, or they did. These days they’ve got more polite ways of saying the same thing. Whatever word you want to use, it’s describing stunted growth.
That growth might me physical, or emotional, or intellectual. And if we saw any of these areas of growth failing to mature on schedule, we’d call up a doctor to find out what might be causing it.
Alright. So, that raises the question: when’s the last time you heard about anyone being worried about spiritual retardation? If the modern church is in the hot mess it’s in today, it can’t possibly be called ‘mature’.
So, where’s the outcry about todays church being retarded from the pews or even from the pulpits?
For that matter, we’ve got all kinds of parenting books talking about the markers of child development. What do we know about the markers of Christian developement? How can we recognize someone becoming genuinely mature in Christ from a flake just playing games?
We do have markers like that one. And they’re probably not what you think they are.
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