BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

In my preparation for teaching my Sunday School class on “Saving Jesus,” I’ve often been taken by the fact that Jesus did not simply grow older…he grew wiser.  Many of us, on the other hand, grow only older.  We stopped learning about our faith a long time ago.  I’m amazed at the number of people who seem to be content with their childhood knowledge of Jesus, rather than seeking to learn more, go deeper, be more mature in their understandings, better grounded in their faith.

How many of you consider yourselves to be growing up as Christians?  I believe that the process of spiritual maturity is the most important one in which we can engage, because it prepares us to accept God’s call, and to serve in the world that Jesus served and gave himself for.  We don’t automatically grow as Christians just because time is passing.  It’s possible just to grow older rather than wiser.  It’s possible just to put on years rather than maturity. 

One of the greatest curses in the church is the shallowness of our knowledge about the very foundations of our faith.  I don’t believe we will find life and renewal by going contemporary in our worship.  We’re not going to find it by getting better organized.  We’ll find it only when children and adults dedicate their lives to learning about and following Jesus.

Paul says in I Corinthians 13:  “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”  I think it’s time we did the same. 

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