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Sunday School Lesson: It's Time To Grow Up! (Hebrews 6:1-3)

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Hermann Hesse said, "youth ends when egotism does."

Truthspresso episode 379 opens with a catch-up. Daniel Minnick tells listeners the show has not been abandoned, explaining that full weekends kept him from recording. The tone is pastoral, direct, and a little homey. After the opening and a brief community promotion, he moves into Hebrews chapter 6 for a lesson on Christian maturity. The point is blunt: grow up. Minnick reads the passage as a push away from spiritual babyhood and toward responsibility, doctrine, discernment, and teaching others. Hebrews gives him the structure. He presents the foundation as six doctrines that may sound unusual at first, then slows down to explain them. Repentance comes first. He treats repentance from dead works as basic Christianity and connects it with Hebrews 9.14. He defines repentance as metanoia, meaning a transformed mind rather than a passing religious mood or a vague regret. Dead works get careful attention too. He says the phrase may mean sinful deeds, useless ritual reliance, or both. Faith toward God follows repentance. The lesson keeps the old covenant and new covenant in view, with Christ fulfilling and replacing what came before. Baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment are handled as foundation, not trivia. The closing appeal lands plainly. Christians who only want milk are urged to take up mature responsibility, eat the meat of doctrine, and help teach others.

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