“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. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe”

I. Are you waiting for…A. Something to change around you?

Circumstances to Change•Job 14:1-2

A Catastrophe•John 16:33

I. Are you waiting for…B. Other people to change?

Relationships to ChangeSomeone to Inspire You

•Matthew 5:13-16

I. Are you waiting for…C. Something about you to change?

Health to ChangeYour Character to Change

•Ezekiel 18:30-32

II. Reasons to choose to grow…

A. “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ”

•2 Corinthians 5:10The Day of Judgment

II. Reasons to choose to grow…

B. “None of us lives to himself”•Romans 14:7-8•Philippians 2:4

Others Need You

II. Reasons to choose to grow…

C. “You have made my days as handbreaths”

•Psalm 39:4-5•James 4:14Life is Short

III. What Can Make Us Stronger?

A. God’s Word.•Acts 20:32

•1 Thessalonians 2:13

III. What Can Make Us Stronger?

B. God’s People.•1 Corinthians 16:15-18

•Hebrews 13:7

III. What Can Make Us Stronger?

C. God’s Work.•Hebrews 5:14

•Ephesians 4:15-16