Diary of a Wimpy Church 2: Don't Get Bored With the Basics

By Micaiah Irmler, May 25, 2023

Diary of a Wimpy Church 2: Don't Get Bored With the Basics

Micaiah Irmler

I Corinthians 3:1-6 NLT

1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.  2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready,  3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?  4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world? 5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.  6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.

1. What your progress? vs. 1-2

1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ.  2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready

A. What got celebrated in one stage is expected in another stage.

B. Don’t get with the basics, but still get the basics.

  1. The basics get you to better.
  2. Better gets you to bigger.
  3. Bigger gets you to overcome harder.

2. Depth is not a . vs. 1

1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 

3. Depth is by your diet. vs. 2

2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 

Hebrews 5:12-14 NKJV 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.  13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.  14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

A. Just because its hard doesn’t mean its harmful to your spiritual growth.

IV. Depth is based on your vs. Hebrews 5:13-14 & I Corinthians 3:3-5

Hebrews 5:13-14 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.  14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

I Corinthians 3:3-5 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?  4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world? 5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. 

Hebrews 6:1 So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God.