Nanny Church

It would be homicide if I were to go into a nursery filled with little babies and feed them steak. Some would choke, some would die and some would suffer greatly.

That would be a gross error. That would be cruel.

An equal and opposite gross error is to bring 15 year old teens into the nursery, change their diapers and feed them pablum because we fear they can't handle whole food.

This is what happens too often in Churches today. Pastors have such a low opinion of the people under their care they baby them. They think they are unable to digest real meat. So, the congregation lives on mothers milk and pureed peas. When these immature spirits in adult bodies are fed a little meat they don't know what to do with it, they choke and complain.

We are instructed in scripture to grow up in the faith. That means you can't keep checking yourself into the nursery at 15 years old.

These teenagers always having been fed pablum if they get a tiny bit of raw meat think they have it all together. They think they've grown up. They think they can discern and walk in hard places. They are like teenagers you have at home or like you were once who now have all the answers at 16. I know I did. Now at 4 times that age I have far fewer. We all do.

In the movie, THE MATRIX Neo is released from the incubation battery complex and forced to fend for himself. His muscles don't work, he doesn't know how to walk, he is weak, he is alone in the world. There are people to help him but he must want their help. He struggles and falls. His body looks like an adult body but is a baby. It takes a long time for him to become adult and learn to eat real food.

The problem is many Christians are outwardly adults, having spent years in the church, but who spiritually have never been weaned. They have no understanding. They are undeveloped, immature and not able to operate in the realm of the Spirit.

They are like children with huge endowments under the care of a nanny guardian who tells them someday they will be able to take advantage of the endowment but for now they have to live under the nanny roof. It's good for the nanny too.

In Galatians 4:1-2 there is a good description of this condition.

Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

Christians have a great inheritance restrained only an unwillingness to grow up.

The problem is many Christians don't really WANT to grow up. They like being babied, told what to think, living off other peoples faith, not able to do battle for themselves, immature and like little babies every time something feels uncomfortable or the nanny leaves them alone or something changes they cry and fuss. The blame rests on the babies and on the nannies who live off them.

Infants don't operate in all the freedom that adults do. That's why there are curfews. That's why 10 year olds can't vote of buy liquor or drive. The same thing is true for Spiritual Babies.

The nanny church does everything for them. They never want to grow up like Peter Pan. Everything seems fine as long as no one messes with their nice little make believe world. Except it's not fine. They are babies posing as adults and doing all forms of damage. They are unprepared when the world changes.

Most people think they have far more Spiritual maturity than they do. We all need to grow up. None of us have it ALL together. We won't till we cross to the other side of the veil. Think about it for just a moment, what spiritual maturity do you think you have?

Infant, Child, Youth, Young Adult, Adult, Middle Aged, Older Adult, Sage of the Faith. Go ahead. Pick one.

Chances are you are at least one level BELOW where you think you are. I include myself in this. It's time to grow up spiritually.


The Bible says something about this condition of Christians today:
Hebrews 5:12-15

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary 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 not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

It's time for the nanny church to start kicking the big kids out of the nursery and start feeding them real meat. It's time for Pastors to quit babying their flock. It's time for Christians to Grow Up.