If the lifespan education of the Christian life begins at birth and it ends at death, to whom is the lifespan important? The church? or to the family?

So imagine a pregnant lady with her husband running to the hospital for delivery, they get their baby and after delivery, they would walk away and leave the baby at the hospital. Imagine all parents were to leave their babies abandoned in the nursery and went home to make more babies and continue the cycle. 

Now ask yourself again what is the goal of your church for your life? A non believer walks in, through God's mercy and grace that person accepts Christ and that person becomes a new born baby Christian. The goal of the church of God is to make disciples to help the Peters of this world to become saints. It is not us who make them holy and mature but that is the work of God. The command to us is to teach them(baby Christians) and guide them while they grow up. If we left a baby unattended so that we could go make more babies and deliver more babies, would the already born babies not starve?would they ever grow?

Maturity matters to God and loving servants are needed. Leadership is about serving not commanding, that characteristic is only for God. Jesus washed feet, he fed the people, he taught his disciples and died for our sins. He showed us compassion, priesthood.

1 Corinthians 3:1-9  

1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking [a]like mere men? 4 For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

 5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own [b]reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's [c]field, God's building.

May you walk in Christ peace on this day