The Remnant Church Podcast Notes

Grow Up: Get Off the Bottle

Main Scripture

Hebrews 5:11–14

Main Idea

Milk is where spiritual growth begins, but God never intended for us to remain spiritual infants.

At The Remnant Church, we do not want to simply know church language. We want the Word of God to change how we live.

Key thought: You can know the language of faith and still lack the appetite of maturity.

1. Are We Growing or Just Attending?

The believers in Hebrews had been walking with God long enough to be further along, but they still needed basic teaching.

Time in church does not automatically produce maturity.

Discussion

Key thought: Truth applied over time produces maturity.

2. Dull Hearing

The writer says they had become “dull of hearing.”

They heard truth, but they were not responding to it.

Discussion

Key thought: When your hearing becomes dull, your growth becomes delayed.

3. Milk Versus Solid Food

Milk represents the basic truths of faith:

Solid food means learning to obey when it is difficult, forgive when hurt, remain faithful under pressure, and apply Scripture to everyday life.

Discussion

Key thought: What sustained your infancy will starve your future.

4. Maturity Requires Practice

Hebrews 5:14 says mature believers train their discernment through constant practice.

Maturity develops through repeated obedience.

Discussion

Key thought: Maturity is not proven by what you know, but by how consistently the Word shapes your response.

Remnant Church Connection

Our mission is:

Know Jesus. Find Family.

Knowing Jesus must lead to transformation.

Finding family means becoming part of a church where people are discipled, corrected, encouraged, and strengthened.

Church Reflection

Are we creating a church people can attend, or a family where people can mature?
How can mature believers help disciple newer believers?
Are we becoming disciples who can help make other disciples?

Weekly Challenge

Identify one area where you already know what God’s Word says but have not consistently obeyed it.

Do not only learn something new this week.

Practice something you already know.

Closing Takeaway

Milk is where we begin, but maturity is where God is calling us.

Real maturity is being trained by the truth until your life begins to look like Jesus.