Readings for Sunday, April 19

This Sunday we'll be considering the matter of spiritual maturity. I'm suspicious that most of us consider it unattainable. Or, because we consider it an undesirable state, we worry that it might be attainable after all.
As a college student I had a bad habit of thinking in terms of the minimum I would have to do to pass a test or a class. Then, if I exceeded the minimum requirement by any amount, I would congratulate myself on being such an overachiever.
That was a transparently idiotic approach for a student to take when he was paying all that money to attend those classes and take those tests.
If it's a stupid way for a student to approach college, what can we say about the so-called Christian who takes essentially the same approach to his faith, figuring out the minimum required of him for the sake of his salvation but never aspiring to the measure of the fullness of Christ?

April 19, 2009

Call to Repentance
Hebrews 6:7-8 (page 1867)

Call to Worship
Psalm 111 (page 952)

OT Reading
Jeremiah 3:19-4:4 (page 1174)

NT Reading
1 Peter 1:17-2:3 (page 1887)

Message
No More than We Must Be?
Ephesians 4:11-17 (page 1821)