Are we content to remain as infant Christians? It appears that many in the body of Christ today suffer from spiritual retardation. In his book, “For God’s Sake Grow Up”, David Ravenhill calls the Church to a greater degree of spiritual maturity. He opens the book with a story of a couple who give birth to their first child only to discover to their horror that he suffers from a medical condition that does not allow him to grow or physically mature at all. You can imagine the parents’ dismay and grief, and I am sure we can imagine God’s dismay and grief when he looks down at his children who are content to flounder in the infant stages of Christianity. Grow up! (more…)