How To Remain a Spiritual Pygmy (Part 1) () - May 11, 2011
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Mike Abendroth Mike’s passion is preaching the Bible in a verse-by-verse fashion and training other men to do the same. He graduated from The Master’s Seminary in 1996 (M. Div.), received his doctorate in Expository Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in May 2006 (D. Min.), and is an adjunct professor at EBTC (European Bible Training Center) and The Master’s Seminary (Doctoral Mentor). Pastor Mike is also the author of Jesus Christ: The Prince of Preachers (DayOne, 2007), The Sovereignty and Supremacy of King Jesus (DayOne, 2011), Things that Go Bump in the Church (Harvest House, 2014), Discovering Romans (Zondervan, 2014), Sexual Fidelity (NoCo Media, 2015) and Evangelical White Lies (NoCo Media, 2016). He is overwhelmed at God’s grace in his salvation and for his family (Kim, Hayley, Luke, Maddie and Grace). Mike has been the Senior Pastor at Bethlehem Bible Church (BBC) in West Boylston, MA since April 1997. When not enjoying his family, Mike is often seen on this.
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Pastor Mike continues the topic started last week on how to stay spiritually immature. (Hint - if you're a believer, you shouldn't want to!)
Review from last week (Another hint - do the opposite of these things!): 1) Drink milk and don't eat solid food* 2) Think the church should revolve around you and your desires
We should be about the business of the church and serving, but it's hard to do so when we are spiritual pygmies/dwarves/babies.
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In Colossians 1:28, Paul communicates his desire that all should be presented to be mature in Christ. The goal is maturity, not church "growth" (per the modern view of that at the expense of real maturity).
Continuing the list today (of what not to do):
3) Don't show up to corporate worship unless the senior pastor is preaching**
4) Let your kids .. or your wife .. or your wife and kids pick the church
5) Try to stay as close as you can to the world (hey - we have to evangelize them don't we?)***
* see 1 Corinthians 3:2 - the Apostle Paul could only give the Corinthians milk since that's all they could handle
** see 1 Corinthians 3:5-9
*** see James 4:4, 1 John 2:15-17
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