4 You Can’t Be a Baby All Your Life!
“God is not honored by our arrested development. The New Testament teaches that we should go on to full maturity, that mediocrity is not the highest that Jesus offers!”
Ihave long resisted and argued against the assumption that all Christians are alike and that there are no distinctions that can be made between them.
“All Christians are saints in God’s eyes and that is the end of the matter!” I have been told.
I am acquainted with all of the arguments, but they do not satisfy me in the light of the words of Jesus and the teachings of the apostles. I still think that we must preach and instruct and urge men and women who are toiling along in average and common Christian ways to move forward and claim spiritual victory, which they have not yet known.
If all Christians are alike in standing and state, why did Jesus Christ talk about three distinctions in the Christian life: “some thirty, some sixty and some a hundredfold” (see Matthew 13:8, 23)? Why did He say that some will be qualified to rule over many cities and others over few cities? Why did He teach that some should have higher positions than others in the kingdom of God?
If we are all alike and have arrived at the same place and state, why did the Apostle Paul tell the Philippian Christians: “I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him.… That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection … being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead” (Philippians 3:8-11)?
“God is not honored by our arrested development. The New Testament teaches that we should go on to full maturity, that mediocrity is not the highest that Jesus offers!”
Ihave long resisted and argued against the assumption that all Christians are alike and that there are no distinctions that can be made between them.
“All Christians are saints in God’s eyes and that is the end of the matter!” I have been told.
I am acquainted with all of the arguments, but they do not satisfy me in the light of the words of Jesus and the teachings of the apostles. I still think that we must preach and instruct and urge men and women who are toiling along in average and common Christian ways to move forward and claim spiritual victory, which they have not yet known.
If all Christians are alike in standing and state, why did Jesus Christ talk about three distinctions in the Christian life: “some thirty, some sixty and some a hundredfold” (see Matthew 13:8, 23)? Why did He say that some will be qualified to rule over many cities and others over few cities? Why did He teach that some should have higher positions than others in the kingdom of God?
If we are all alike and have arrived at the same place and state, why did the Apostle Paul tell the Philippian Christians: “I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him.… That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection … being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead” (Philippians 3:8-11)?
4 You Can’t Be a Baby All Your Life!
“God is not honored by our arrested development. The New Testament teaches that we should go on to full maturity, that mediocrity is not the highest that Jesus offers!”
Ihave long resisted and argued against the assumption that all Christians are alike and that there are no distinctions that can be made between them.
“All Christians are saints in God’s eyes and that is the end of the matter!” I have been told.
I am acquainted with all of the arguments, but they do not satisfy me in the light of the words of Jesus and the teachings of the apostles. I still think that we must preach and instruct and urge men and women who are toiling along in average and common Christian ways to move forward and claim spiritual victory, which they have not yet known.
If all Christians are alike in standing and state, why did Jesus Christ talk about three distinctions in the Christian life: “some thirty, some sixty and some a hundredfold” (see Matthew 13:8, 23)? Why did He say that some will be qualified to rule over many cities and others over few cities? Why did He teach that some should have higher positions than others in the kingdom of God?
If we are all alike and have arrived at the same place and state, why did the Apostle Paul tell the Philippian Christians: “I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him.… That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection … being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead” (Philippians 3:8-11)?
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