Pastor Ralph Diehl » Peter Pan http://www.ralphdiehl.com Thoughts on Life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 PETER PAN SYNDROME http://www.ralphdiehl.com/2009/12/02/peter-pan-syndrome/ http://www.ralphdiehl.com/2009/12/02/peter-pan-syndrome/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:12 +0000 pastordiehl http://www.ralphdiehl.com/?p=1425 Remember Peter Pan? Remember his song?

I won’t grow up,
Not a penny will I pinch,
I will never grow a mustache,
or a fraction of an inch,
for growing up is awfuller
than all the awful things that ever were,
I will never grow up, never grow up,
never grow up, not me!

Peter led his young disciples in that song. With great gusto they proclaimed that they wanted to stay children forever. They could not imagine anything as bad as becoming adult.

The Peter Pan Syndrome has crept into the church. There are believers that want to treat Jesus like Santa Claus and only want to tell Him what they want, never the other way around. These Christians never want to grow up. An essential ingredient of Christianity is an insatiable desire to grow in maturity.

How’re ya doin’?

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