I am the one who love to tweet on twitter with some reasons as followings:
- I love to read some random ideas of Pastors, Peace makers and Churches.
- I just want to know what other people that I never know them thinking about.
- There are a lot of good words which encourage me a lot
Today I was sitting on the computer almost all day ( I don't like to do it that much but I don't know why I didn't do some thing else) By the way, I saw a tweet of my favorite young Pastor named Matt Chandler http://twitter.com/MattChandler74 and then a random thinking just came up to my mind..
I knew him via a friend of my Eirik Larsen, he recommended me to listen his preachings.Below is the website...After that I just followed to listen to him always. In each week I needed to know how God used this Pastor to encourage us.
Since I am in Norway over 1 year and since God gave me the wisdom to understand Norwegian. I didn't hear that much a about strong and hard preaching in Norway. Perhaps there are some but don't know where.
Thanks God, I knew my self I am not a kind of spiritual milk and I can receive real food or solid food for my soul. Actually I am really hungry for solid food as well. Many times I would like to give some solid food to other young people by speaking, encouraging but it seems difficult,because I have to be care full. Their spirituals might not grow enough to receive the hard words.
The ideas came: with the example of 2 Pastors:
- From a big church in Kr.Sand ( there are many many youth there! )
- From Matt Chandler
For example,the topic was about the youth just live together without getting married! So I heard this preaching for long time ago from the first Pastor in Kristian sand. He preached to the youth in his church that " I don't care what the other people think about you or don't except you because of you don't get marry. Anyway this church accept you.... and welcome you always !! we love you and accept you no matter what how you are... God love you anyway and so and so.....( with many beautiful words ) But in the end he closed up with " but it will be much more better for you if you get marry and I believe that God will bless you more than you don't "
His preaching was absolutely true but really soft, mind and be care full.
Almost the same topic. Matt said " Com'on your wife is not your sex toy! or not your slave! she has a soul and she is your soul... you have to respect her!
Matt was also absolutely true but really hard rock, strong and direct!
So both of them are right! What does it mean ?
I think, I knew the reason why the first pastor has to preach soft like that for the youth in his church. Maybe because he knew the positions of them how the level of their spiritual are. They might not ready to eat the solid food.
But the question is how long that this pastor has to give the milk for those youths, if he give only milk for them how strong of their spiritual.
PS. until now he still give milk to the youth in his church.
Think! What will be happened if the first pastor said like this to those youth : You !! you are lier !! you said you are Christian, you belong to Christ! but you just hiding you sin in front of God's eyes. You fool !! why you still love to go to club, drinking, smoking and free sex. You just kidding with God all the time. You idiot!! shouldn't be even here!! Because you are so sinful!! You think on body no it, you just think that is my life I can do what I want. You think,Jesus gave the salvation and that's it!! You!! Sinner how long that you will be like this!! You know what !!?even you sinful but God still has mercy for you ,so he still waiting for you to REPENT !!! Com'on let's throw those sin things and start to come back to him.
Uhmm... what will be happened ?
- Oh!! the Pastor is not polite... So stupid.... I don't need to come to this church any more
- Oh!!! yah he is alright I am sin, I am lier, I need God's grace and I would like to repent and turn back to God!!
Let's we see what the Bible said :
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:12-14
The last question is : do you want to drink milk or eat solid food for your soul ?
