By now you should have been teachers, but once again you need to be taught the simplest things about what God has said. You need milk instead of solid food. People who live on milk are like babies who don’t really know what is right.
(Hebrews 5:12-13 CEV)
The church is still experiencing what I like to call “baby boomers,” an increase in the birth rate of new Christians, but who sadly remain just that-babies, or “babes in Christ.” In the New Testament, we find various examples of born again Christians, who continued to act like babies in their relationship with God and others. In today’s passage, the author of Hebrews addressed his readers as babies, “By now you should have been teachers, but once again you need to be taught the simplest things about what God has said. You need milk instead of solid food. People who live on milk are like babies who don’t really know what is right” (Hebrews 5:12-13). These church members were not recent converts, but they sure were still acting as such. They had not progressed in the spiritual life, becoming Christians of sound judgment and discernment. But thankfully, the solution to this ancient dilemma is still the same, “We must try to become mature and start thinking about more than just the basic things we were taught about Christ…Let’s grow up, if God is willing” (Hebrews 6:1,3).
Spiritual immaturity delights the devil but grieves the heart of God.
Rising with the Son 