I'm guilty of skipping church, but it's a valid excuse, unlike so many of the excuses I hear regularly! I was not attending yesterday because I was holding my hours old newborn son. Even now, I sit in room 4136 while my wife and youngest son sleep and I make my blog contribution.
As I ponder the last few hours, I had an interesting scriptural epiphany: this is so simple and profound that this may insult your intelligence, but I'm gonna share it and hope for the best.
Peter speaks of newborn babies desiring the sincere milk of the word, and that is the place I find myself back at with baby Griffin. He's a milk only kid at this point. Alex, at a three year old enjoys milk, but with real food. The reason he is okay with milk is because we had to teach him to like it. This is what Griffin needs to learn! He doesn't automatically like it because he's a baby, he has to learn that this is something that he needs. Throw in the spiritual aspect - those new Christians don't automatically just love the Bible because that's what they are supposed to do, they need to be taught! Bring back the great commission with it's emphasis on teaching, and you have got a convincing argument!
Thanks to my 23 hour old son for teaching me this spiritual lesson! He may have a future in ministry! Or he could write my sermons for me...
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