A Diet of Milk

As a journalist I must be conscious of giving readers credit and not dumbing down the content of articles. Hence, I’m sensitive to sermons where I hear preachers giving their congregation milk, rather than the meat of the Gospel. Certainly, the immature in Christ need the milk of the Word; however, when pastors offer nothing but milk their membership will not mature. The writer of Hebrews said, “Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil” (Heb 5:13-14 NIV).