El Camino Baptist Church

Sunday's Message
January 26, 2010

BE LIKE A NEWBORN BABY

Few things are more precious than a newborn baby.  They are so sweet, innocent and pure. They also have almost unlimited potential. Scientists claim that the most incredible computer on the planet is a baby’s brain.  It takes in an amazing amount of information and it is miraculously adaptable.

Sunday I’m preaching on “Be Like a Newborn Baby” from 1 Peter 2:1-10.  Peter was writing to Christians who were scattered throughout modern Turkey.  They were being persecuted, so he wrote to encourage them.  He told them to grow like a newborn baby (verses 1-3) and to be a new person (verses 4-10).  The growth would require them to put away such things as spite, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and gossip.  It’s so easy to be critical of others, to defame them and to be jealous of them.  It’s time that we grow up and love others unconditionally through the grace of God.  Jesus is the rock on which we can grow into a new people who reflect the light of God.

February 23, at 2:00 we’re going to have an hour class on how to help people be born again.  Please put it on your calendars now so that you can acquire a new attitude toward serving others and help them have a new innocence and purity like a newborn baby.

With love in Christ,

Jim Meek