Remember back when you were a child…better yet, remember when your children were babies? What kind of food did you give them? The soft stuff… Why? Well, 1. they hadn’t grown any teeth, 2. their system can’t handle that kind of food…We often make many correlations to the Christian life and food.
In fact, Paul himself does it. The fact still remains… we haven’t taken advantage of Paul’s process of thinking. Simply put, I expect each person who walks through the doors of our church to comprehend the mystery of God to the degree that I myself do…not that I can honestly say I even understand a piece of the Godly mystery. That said, why haven’t we considered growing our churches more organically, much like the growth cycles of life?
And my next question, is that even possible? Are we to believe that it is impossible for someone to grow in Christ by starting them on the simple, soft foods of the gospel? I’ll continue these thoughts later… food for thought…
