{"id":4707,"date":"2024-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/october-23\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:36:42","slug":"october-23","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/october-23\/","title":{"rendered":"October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Hebrews<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 6:1, the author draws an inference from his stated challenge to maturity. Against spiritual halfheartedness, let us grow up, leaving the elementary aspects of the faith to pursue maturity. He then gives six features associated with \u201cthe elementary doctrine of Christ\u201d that every Christian needs to grasp early and then build upon\u2026These are six of Christianity\u2019s foundational principles. Repentance and faith address our conversion, when we move from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. Various washings and laying on of hands relate to our public initiation\u2013\u2013the time of our healing, the time of our baptism, or the time of our commission. Then our resurrection and final judgment are at the conclusion. It\u2019s as if the foundational principles address the boundaries of our journey, the dates on the tomb stone, between the promise of rest at the beginning of new life and the rest itself at the end. But the call of the text is to consider the dash between the dates and to press into life\u2019s journey. Having left Egypt and passed through the waters, we must now move ahead in obedience through the wilderness of life in route to the promised land. Thus, the author urges in 6:1, \u201cLet us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity.\u201d We must grow up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4707","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}