It is cute right now that Tyler depends on others for everything. His constant asking for (and many times demanding) what he wants is endearing and there are many who stand at his beck and call. But there is an expectation of a changing relationship between he and us as he continues to grow and increase in skills. The ultimate desire for him is that some day he would have a child to care for and train up to be a responsible person.
Many in the body of Christ stay in spiritual infancy. The continue to require spoon feeding of the gospel. They need a message to pump them up and make them feel better every service. They never learn to find peace and comfort from the Word in their own time of devotion. As such, they never produce spiritual offspring and the church's spiritual "nursery" never promotes anyone.
The expectation from every believer should be to"...reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Eph. 4:13)
Laying in a pile of warm laundry is okay when we are little, but we should all expect to DO laundry as we grow up.
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