Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, with instruction about ablutions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Hebrew 6:1-2

It seems I know too many Christians that want to just continue to lay that foundation.  They want to keep drinking the spiritual milk, rather than move on to solid food.  Scripture study groups are wrought with the easy — sometimes cheesy — topics that focus on what many members already learned and know.

These same folks just want to talk over and over about faith and sin and forgiveness and being saved, so much so that they never see the real lessons and purpose of the Scriptures, and of the life of Christ Jesus.  They speak a language that I like to call “Christian-ese”; a fluffy language that glosses over real issues and problems that people are having, and instead bombards them with “catch phrases”  (for example “We just have to let go and let God!”)

Those things actually work against us in sharing the Gospel and drawing people to faith and the Church. The reality is that those of us who have come to a living faith need to dig deeper. We need to understand more than just “the ABCs” (ask, believe, confess) of Christian doctrine and Scripture.

When we dig deeper than the surface, we will find an understanding and a faith that God intended for us to know … and a life that is richer because of it.