A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt’s friend’s cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about “all the contradictions in the Bible,” it will consume you and your joy.]
Maturity
Ed Cole
Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility.
Seth Dahl
It is no one else’s responsibility to avoid my triggers. It is not the government’s responsibility to redesign the nation so I don’t get triggered. It is not a business’s job to make sure they don’t say anything that triggers me. It’s not my spouses’ responsibility to walk on eggshells so I don’t blow up. It’s not my kid’s responsibility to behave in such a way I don’t go off on them. It’s my responsibility to make sure I don’t have bullets loaded in my heart so no matter what happens around me I respond in a healthy way.
Theodore Epp
It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.
T. J. Green
Noah was drunk and naked. His youngest son laughed and made light of his fathers state while the older sons took a sheet and walked backwards to cover him. Immaturity delights in the shortcomings of others but maturity will restore dignity to the family of God.
John Bevere
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
Darren Wilson
As a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up. I could eat dessert whenever I wanted, could watch TV whenever I wanted and be completely in charge of myself. But now that I am a grown-up, I’m beginning to learn that growing up in God’s Kingdom is actually the whole aging process in reverse. When Jesus says, “Become like a child,” it is not something that happens in an instant. It’s a process. When we are born, we must begin growing up. When we are born again, we must begin growing down.
Thom S Rainer
We are God’s building, God’s spiritual house. He first built us (created us). He then bought us back (redeemed us) with His own blood. Next, He moved in. He took up residence in our lives. And He is not done. He continually works on us. He is constantly redecorating. Continual transformation is the work of the Holy Spirit.
Janette Oke
A person doesn’t demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.
Steve Stockman
The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being “born again” but little time on “growing up” again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward and into a big world where they will spend the rest of their spiritual lives trying to find what they are looking for.