On the Road to Maturity
We as a student ministry have started a series of messages on “Building Our House on the Rock Solid Foundation of Christ.” This series we are going to be going through the elements of building a house. This series is based off of Hebrews 6:1 “Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,” (NIV). At some point in time we as Christ Followers we have to move from the foundational teachings to more of a mature learning/teaching. Who, What and How are we building our house or “Christianity” on/in?
The foundations are a very important key to our walk with Christ, but, it should not be our goal to stay on the foundational aspects of faith. Paul writes in I Corinthians 3:2 “I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready” (NIV). I believe as Christians we believe that after “praying a prayer” we have arrived. But as I related this thought to building our house this our laying of the foundation. As we accept Christ we have put that foundation down, but we do not live in a house of just a foundation. We live in houses with walls, a roof, insulation, wiring, decoration, etc. But so many times in our Christian walk we lay the foundation (salvation) and then live on the foundation. What happens when the weather changes it becomes cold/hot, windy and rainy? Once again the foundation is key but we continue to build on that foundation.
As we look at the house we are building we have the blue prints (Hebrews 6:1), the foundation– Salvation in and through Christ ALONE (John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life no one come to the father except through me.”). As we build our house together and we take each part of the house and apply it to building or maturing our faith in Christ we will see the importance of continuingly reinfocing it.
My prayer for our student ministry is to have students that fall into I Corinthians 3:2-3 “You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tables of human hearts.”
