The worst experience of my life
A new born baby!
Anyone with children can relate. New babies can be a handful. (And then some!) Let’s review some of the aspects of New Babies!
New Babies
• Dirty dippers
• When you change them they poop again
• Crying – It’s not like the can tell you what is wrong
• Taking up my space
o They break my equipment
o Puke on my clothes
o And just ravage all my “stuff”
• Can’t eat a hot meal (This is the only time they choose to cry, other than 3:00 a.m.)
• Taking up my time – little time for anything extra
• Expensive – Very costly
• No sleep – up all night
• The silly thing is just Helpless
When you think about New Converts many of the same things apply.
For Example:
• Dirty dippers (The Stink they bring into our churches. New Converts don’t usually (or ever) bring in great lives, they usually bring in the messed up life.)
• When you change them they poop again (You have to give constant advise, they don’t know how to fix there own problem)
• Crying – can’t tell you what is wrong (They can’t convey what is happening to there spiritual life)
• Taking up my space – equipment, clothes, stuff (They take my parking spot, my seat, my ministry, my position, my friends, etc.)
• Can’t eat a hot meal (We have to give up some meals – fasting)
• Taking up my time – little time for anything extra (We have to teach bible studies, etc.)
• Expensive – Very costly (Why advertise, Why keep putting out on these new people, I’ve been here for years.)
• No sleep – up all night (Talking on the phone at 2:30 to a man from your church that has been drinking and feeling lonely, or you have to drive across the city to have a counseling meeting with a saint who is having difficulty, this after you have put in a 13 hour work day.)
• Just Helpless (They are no help in our church because they don’t know anything, they just take up time.)
Benefits
• First time he opened his eyes!
o When my little boy opened his eyes and “saw” me for the first time. It was worth it all.
The long sleepless night
The sleeping on a hospital window couch
• First time he says “Daddy”
o Oh, he gets what ever he wants.
o Who cares what everyone else says… he said “da”
o (Yes, that was close enough for me)
• First time he preaches
o I have a small child, but I can see in my mind’s eye. My son speaking to people telling them about a wonderful savior.
• When he comes up and says “I love you” for no reason at all.
o Well…
o Let’s just say the world disappears!
Saints
• First time he opened his eyes!
o When they understand that revelation for the first time.
o It all becomes worth wild.
• When this “New Convert” is ministering to their “New Convert.”
o When you see this new person bringing a friend or family member, and start to minister themselves.
o WOW! No other feeling of accomplishment.
They don’t always say the words right
They don’t always know everything
(But, you didn’t know everything when you started with them either.)
• They bring you an encouraging word
• Or when they say “Father, I Love You”
o When this New Babe In Christ finally understands Praise and Worship. How to walk on their own.
o You realize all the suffering, all the lack of sleep, all the heart ache, all the suffering, etc.
o Maybe I should say it like this.
o It’s time WE grew up and let the worst experience of our lives, became the best experience of our lives.
1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
