you get to this place in your life where after looking around for the solution long enough, you finally look up, and you say, God, if you’re there, can you help me?

2. But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual
people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in
Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you
were not ready for it. And even now you are not
yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while
there is jealousy and strife among you, are you
not of the flesh and

3. behaving only in a human way? For when one
says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow
Apollos,” are you not being merely human?
- 1 Cor 3:1-4

4. Flesh vs. Spirit

5. For while there is jealousy and strife among you,
are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a
human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,”
and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being
merely human?
- vv. 3-4

6. Jealousy & Strife

7. Jealousy: Intense negative feelings
over another’s achievements or
success.

8. Strife: Taking sides over an issue
for the purpose of rivalry.

9. Spiritual Maturity: Becoming more
like Jesus through the process of
surrendering my “flesh” to the will of
God.

10. Infancy is believing in what
Jesus did.
Maturity is following what
Jesus did.

11. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would
come after me, let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow me.”
- Matthew 16:24