Milk or Meat?
I have been contemplating much. Life has been rather difficult these last few years. I need not go into those dark moments as most of you know about them. In my recent discussions, I have talked about growth. I wonder just how much of a vision we are to have.
What I mean is this. Some pastors cannot see past the first few rows of pews. Some cannot see beyond the doors of their building, others vision extends to the community, the city, perhaps the nation and yet others possess a vision that envelopes the whole of the earth. This same degree of vision applies also to worshippers. Each of the degrees in vision could be views as meaning a step in spiritual maturity. The greater ones spiritual maturity, the greater the vision.
Hebrews 5:11-14 states, “We have much to explain because you are slow to learn. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”
We have been given an ordination. The word ordination, ordain comes from the Latin, to appoint. In modern terms it means to invest with ministerial or priestly authority. Matthew 28:19-20 is fairly clear, “All authority has been given to me, therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Each and every one of use are called to evangelize even if we don’t like to hear this.
We can be teachers in Sunday school, ministers of children’s church, church secretaries, bible study group leaders, a pastor, elder or a Sunday worshipper; nonetheless, we are all called to share the Gospel with people. What say you? How long will you sit in the pew and reject your calling?
Evangelizing can be as simple as making friends with someone and allowing 1) God to shine through you and into them, 2) allowing them to see how you manage the bad things that occur in your life. Through this witnessing, and God’s calling upon their heart, they may one day ask you about God or give you the green light to share your testimony with them.
When you grow by stepping beyond the pews, the doors and into the world and do that which the Apostles did, you will grow hungry for solid food. Remember what Paul said, You ought to be teachers but you need people to teach you the basics of faith over and over again. Paul is telling you it is time for you to take up your cross, to learn to train yourself to distinguish good from evil, to mature and eat solid food. What a world we would live in if just half of all Christians did this. This then is my prayer that they will mature.
What I mean is this. Some pastors cannot see past the first few rows of pews. Some cannot see beyond the doors of their building, others vision extends to the community, the city, perhaps the nation and yet others possess a vision that envelopes the whole of the earth. This same degree of vision applies also to worshippers. Each of the degrees in vision could be views as meaning a step in spiritual maturity. The greater ones spiritual maturity, the greater the vision.
Hebrews 5:11-14 states, “We have much to explain because you are slow to learn. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”
We have been given an ordination. The word ordination, ordain comes from the Latin, to appoint. In modern terms it means to invest with ministerial or priestly authority. Matthew 28:19-20 is fairly clear, “All authority has been given to me, therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Each and every one of use are called to evangelize even if we don’t like to hear this.
We can be teachers in Sunday school, ministers of children’s church, church secretaries, bible study group leaders, a pastor, elder or a Sunday worshipper; nonetheless, we are all called to share the Gospel with people. What say you? How long will you sit in the pew and reject your calling?
Evangelizing can be as simple as making friends with someone and allowing 1) God to shine through you and into them, 2) allowing them to see how you manage the bad things that occur in your life. Through this witnessing, and God’s calling upon their heart, they may one day ask you about God or give you the green light to share your testimony with them.
When you grow by stepping beyond the pews, the doors and into the world and do that which the Apostles did, you will grow hungry for solid food. Remember what Paul said, You ought to be teachers but you need people to teach you the basics of faith over and over again. Paul is telling you it is time for you to take up your cross, to learn to train yourself to distinguish good from evil, to mature and eat solid food. What a world we would live in if just half of all Christians did this. This then is my prayer that they will mature.
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