Christians need to have a steady diet of God’s word, or they will fail to grow. The Hebrew writer spoke of this problem. “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Like plants, Christians need to grow