growing in God includes renewing their minds (Rom 12:1-2). Some might object, noting that Jesus called his disciples to “become like children” (Mt 18:1-3). But Jesus was not calling his disciples to immaturity. He wanted them to walk in the humility of a child rather than the arrogance of many adults. He wanted them to repudiate the sham, the compromise and the cynicism of adulthood. It was not an instruction to romp around in spiritual diapers. The old man in the sky. For some people God is an old