Once a Child

once a child here we are at the kickoff and really just kind of scratching the surface this week. So you want to come back each week

Because we just really examine kind of this subject from different angles in perspective so you

you certainly won't get the whole gist of it from just one or two or even three

messages you want to kind of collect all six to get the whole you know

perspective so that we can come to that place where kind of collect all six to get the whole perspective

so that we can come to that place

where we could be child-like and remain child-like

without being childish.

And our heart's desire is that we would grow up and not just get old.

Anybody with me on that?

And John Chapter 3 is a perfect place to launch into all of this

because in it we find Jesus speaking into this subject clearly,

perhaps more clearly than he does anywhere else in any of the red letters of the Bible.

As he talks about this idea of being twice a child and once a man.

And he does so in a conversation to someone who sought him out,

a prominent person who sought Jesus out.

And this happened all the time,

especially as Jesus' popularity began to Christianity. And this and this would be all sorts of different people. I mean literally you know people

who were famous people who were nameless people who had leprosy people who were

you know tax collectors yes even contrary to popular belief people who work for the IRS do

have souls but in their day you know they were definitely viewed as second class

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