Hello, thank you for joining me today, forgive him 15. Let's get the week started off right.

The title of today's post is, what stage are you in?

In Friday's post, I spoke of leaders in past revivals and awakenings, sometimes being released into ministry

prematurely. The following teaching helps identify the various stages of spiritual growth and development.

There are several Greek words for a child or children.

Though each can be translated as child, they typically indicate a specific age range or stage of a child's development. And these different stages of physical growth and development are sometimes used to describe our spiritual stages of growth and maturity.

First, I list them, then make comments. Napias means no speech, and refers to an infant or baby.

Piedion, Pideon often refers to a toddler or young child.

Paise is a word for child that can include a broad age range, sometimes even translated just as boy or girl.

A technon is a child up to an including a teenager, young adult. These stages of

growth obviously require, by the way, let me just pause here and say, I have a lot of scriptures

in this post, some of them printing out the entire scripture, which I'm not

reading. If some of you want a deeper study, you want to teach this, get the printed version,

and you'll find a lot of references. Okay. These stages of growth obviously require different

approaches in parenting. Napiasas or babies can't be fed the same food

as adolescents and teenagers. Likewise, Paul told the Corinthians that he couldn't speak to them,

or feed them, in other words, as spiritual men, but as babes or infants in Christ.

And just as one obviously cannot give a baby authority or responsibility,

one should not do so with a spiritual newborn or babe.

We love babies, feed them, burp them, change their diapers, let them rest, and

repeat the process. Where toddlers and young children, Pite-ions, are concerned, we begin to expect

more from them, even giving them responsibilities, such as putting away their toys or taking out the trash.

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