Spiritually asking? What is the difference between a false conversion and a true one?

Blessings. In Luke 18:17, Jesus says that anyone who does not receive the kingdom like a little child shall not enter into it. Childlike faith provides entrance into the kingdom.

And yet many Christians confuse having faith like a child with actually behaving like a child. There are many who may or may not have childlike faith, but who behave in childish ways. Jesus wants us to be childlike, not childish.

Childlike faith trusts. Childlike faith knows no bounds. Childlike faith listens to what is said, and believes it.

Childlike faith. It believes the most amazing things, is simple. It is pure.

It is honest. It simply believes. It is beautiful.

Childishness, on the other hand, is not beautiful. What is childishness? Childishness is childlike behavior gone sour.

Childishness is a refusal to grow up. Childishness is when a person of any age acts younger than they are. While it is natural for children to act like children, it is expected that they will grow up and stop acting like children.

When they do not, they are being childish. Childishness is when people who should know better throw temper tantrums and pout when they don't get their way. Childishness is when people are irresponsible and behave as if the world revolves around them.

Childishness is when people make petty demands and selfish complaints. Children are born with the natural tendency to disobey, to throw temper tantrums, to cry when they don't get their way, to scream at the top of their voice when they get a little bit hungry, and to fuss when they get tired. It is a parent's responsibility to train and discipline these things out of child.

If a boy turns eight, and consistently throws temper tantrums in order to get his way, he is acting childish. If a girl turns fifteen, and still pouts and cries when asked to vacuum the living room, she is acting childish. These sinful tendencies must be trained and disciplined out of a child.

Children must grow up. Acting like a child is okay and expected when we are children. But as we grow up and mature, as we are trained and disciplined, we should leave childish ways behind.

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:11, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." When you are a child, it is okay to act like one. But as you grow up, you should put away childish behavior.

In culture and society, we have a pretty normal method for accomplishing this. Hopefully, as children age, they are trained and disciplined and taught about life. They are given good work habits, taught good study skills, and learn appropriate social behavior.

This is maybe not as common as some would like, but this is the goal. Most parents want their children to grow up, mature, move out and become successful. But when it comes to spiritual children in the church, we have become experts at fostering and encouraging perpetual immaturity.

Many churches do everything they can to stunt growth. We allow spiritual babes to remain spiritual babes - forever. They cry for candy; we give them candy, rather than the milk and meat of the Word that they need to grow.

They throw temper tantrums, and we give in to their desires. They threaten to run away from home, and so we buy them the toys they want. We play the little games.

We feed the felt needs. We cater to the selfish desires. I am reading a book called The Transformation of American Religion by Alan Wolfe.

It is an amazing critique of modern churches and how they are no longer standing up for the truth, but instead cater to the demands and desires of people. He says several times that the American church is becoming just another self-help organization, where it gives people what they want to hear, rather than what they need to hear. This is exactly what Paul says will happen to churches that do not remain true to Biblical truth, and Alan Wolfe has documented it.

The most amazing thing about the book however, is that Alan Wolfe is not a Christian. He's not religious at all. Yet here he is, a non-Christian sociologist, surveying the American religious landscape, and arriving at the conclusion that the church has lost its power and influence because it now caters to the demands and desires of the people, rather than holding fast to Biblical truth.

When we recognize that we are sinners, and we begin to listen to the music of Christ in Scripture, we begin to grow up. We mature. We leave behind childish ways and childish thinking.

We become wisdom's children.... Great and very interesting question. Peace out.

The difference is 'pureness of spirit'. A Child -- being innocent, happy at heart, pure in thinking. Such characteristics that if adapted by a grown-up would make him 'childlike' in his ways of looking at things beyond pride and shame.

He'll trust his whole being in his Protector. Jump with joy over his gifts. Laugh with his heart over simple things -- even the most insignificant webbing of a spider, or the flight of a firefly at night.

To be 'childish' is to act irresponsibly without thought or care. An immaturity not applicable for one with the right age to know what's wrong, or unreasonable, or selfish. He'll whine over every difficulty encountered.

Get angry when things don't go his direction. Blame others for his shortcomings. Lie to deceive as he feels necessary.

Being 'childlike' is of characteristic. Being 'childish' is of attitude.

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