No Training Wheels
Ben just came home from his dad’s last night and announced that he can ride his bike without training wheels. I can’t believe how BIG my baby is getting. It seems like it was just yesterday I brought him home from the hospital and now at almost five he is riding a bike like a pro.
The thought of no more training wheels made me think about how many of us Chrisitans ride through our Spiritual lives with training wheels on. We don’t study or read the Word for ourselves we just trust the Pastor to do so. We need to take the training wheels off so to speak and start searching the Word on our own. Especially with the amount of false teachers spouting heresy nowadays. If we are not studying the Word on our own we will not recognize false teachers when they come.
I have a couple of recommendations for ways to get in the Word and study it for yourself (get those training wheels off). The first is to check out Precept Ministries from Kay Arthur. I have read her book How to Study Your Bible
; and it is very good. Some of you know that I have my Bachelor’s in Theology and yet this book put studying the Bible in such a concise, practical format that it has me excited once again to dig into the deeper truths of God’s Word. The other resource I would recommend is Todd Friel’s (of Wretched TV) Herman Who? It is a fairly short DVD teaching on Hermeneutics.
So get those training wheels off and start digging into the Word for yourself.
Love the new style of your blog – very cute!
I like this illustration. It is more meaningful to me because I have a child who was terrified of the thought of riding without the training wheels. I actually know people who have been Christians for many years who are still trying to ride with the training wheels. Thanks for sharing these thoughts.
Yay, Ben!!!!!
And it’s only by reading and meditating on ALL of God’s word that we can bring Him glory in having Him live out His plans and purposes through us in our daily lives.