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Series: Illuminate
Ryan Heller
1 Peter 2:1-3
I'm convinced that preschoolers have the most charmed life in the world. Would you agree? The goal of being a preschooler is, mainly, to look cute. You get chauffeured around town by your mom. You don't have any responsibilities. Even if you go to preschool, you're just hanging out with your friends. You don't have any assignments. You don't have any homework. No grades, no tests, no obligations. Being a preschooler is pretty awesome. You're playing with Legos, you're watching cartoons on TV, and life is just the best. You don't even have to wipe your own bottom. Come on, now. That's really good stuff. But it would be strange if you had a preschooler who never grew up. Someone who never matured.
A few years ago, the National Geographic Channel featured a show on their hit series Taboo. It told the story of a man named Stanley Thornton, who was thirty years old and weighed 350 pounds. He was a full-fledged man, but he thought of himself as a child. He struggled with a disorder called paraphilic infantilism, which causes adults to act like babies. On the show, he went to the hardware store and bought a bunch of lumber to make himself an oversized crib to hang out in. He had a supersized high chair and was fed by a roommate named Sandra Diaz, a former nurse who acted as his mother, and who spoon-fed him and made his bottle. He even wore diapers, which he wet during the day-all because he could never grow up.
Today, many Christians are like Stanley. We suck on a pacifier. We wear diapers. We need to be fed. But God wants us to mature and grow up. Last week we started a series called Illuminate, and I've been talking about the power of the Word of God in our life. God wants us to understand His Word, because He wants us to see what we've never seen, so we can go where we've never gone, and we can do what we've never done. That's the power of God's Word. Today I want to talk about God's Word in re ...
Series: Illuminate
Ryan Heller
1 Peter 2:1-3
I'm convinced that preschoolers have the most charmed life in the world. Would you agree? The goal of being a preschooler is, mainly, to look cute. You get chauffeured around town by your mom. You don't have any responsibilities. Even if you go to preschool, you're just hanging out with your friends. You don't have any assignments. You don't have any homework. No grades, no tests, no obligations. Being a preschooler is pretty awesome. You're playing with Legos, you're watching cartoons on TV, and life is just the best. You don't even have to wipe your own bottom. Come on, now. That's really good stuff. But it would be strange if you had a preschooler who never grew up. Someone who never matured.
A few years ago, the National Geographic Channel featured a show on their hit series Taboo. It told the story of a man named Stanley Thornton, who was thirty years old and weighed 350 pounds. He was a full-fledged man, but he thought of himself as a child. He struggled with a disorder called paraphilic infantilism, which causes adults to act like babies. On the show, he went to the hardware store and bought a bunch of lumber to make himself an oversized crib to hang out in. He had a supersized high chair and was fed by a roommate named Sandra Diaz, a former nurse who acted as his mother, and who spoon-fed him and made his bottle. He even wore diapers, which he wet during the day-all because he could never grow up.
Today, many Christians are like Stanley. We suck on a pacifier. We wear diapers. We need to be fed. But God wants us to mature and grow up. Last week we started a series called Illuminate, and I've been talking about the power of the Word of God in our life. God wants us to understand His Word, because He wants us to see what we've never seen, so we can go where we've never gone, and we can do what we've never done. That's the power of God's Word. Today I want to talk about God's Word in re ...
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