I wish I could point to an easy way to move from infancy in the faith to adulthood. The Apostle Paul speaks of our need to be nourished and nurtured. He also uses the image of babies as requiring a milk diet because they aren’t yet ready to eat solid food. It takes time to reach spiritual maturity. But what’s scary is when we hear of people who have been in the faith for ten years or fifteen years and they’re still drinking milk. That was what was distressing the Apostle here in his letter to the Corinthians. The time for their infancy was long past, and he was calling them now to a solid diet
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