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focus on the elementary (as in elementary school) principles of the Kingdom. What
are these elementary principles?

Hebrews 5:12-6:2
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again
for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of
God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone
who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of
righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who
because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press
on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead
works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and
laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and judgment.

What do the churches focus on week after week, year after year? Is it not elementary
teaching about the Christ, about repentance from dead works and faith toward
Christ? Is it not elementary teachings about washings and laying on of hands, and
the resurrection from the dead and judgment? These are all elementary things. These
things equate to learning the alphabet, counting to ten, learning basic colors and
shapes, reading a clock, and other things our children learn while in elementary
school. It would be totally inappropriate for a high school student to still be sitting
in classes where the alphabet is being taught and students are learning to write out
their letters. Yet many saints have been sitting in primary school for years in their
churches. They have not progressed past drinking milk to eating meat.

I recently had a Christian brother from Colorado fly out to Georgia for some business
in Atlanta. He had read some of my writings and wanted to speak with me. This
brother only knew the elementary principles of Christ and he became offended when
he heard me declare some things he had never heard before. He began scolding me
for getting away from elementary principles. He told me that all I really needed to do
was focus on evangelism and Gospel 101. Everything else he declared to be a waste
of time and a distraction from the true purpose of the saints which he pronounced
to be the winning of souls.

This mindset is a problem among the saints of God. Many saints read the command
of Christ where He stated,"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit..."
(Matthew 28:19), and they interpret this to mean "get people born again and
baptized." But making disciples is much more than getting people born again. It
would be like a hospital that closed all of its facilities except for the maternity ward
where babies were born. Life isn't complete at birth. There is much left to take place.
There are children to be raised, young adults to be nurtured and taught to walk