Time to Grow Up: The Danger of Being a Baby Christian

By Betty Miles

“It’s Time To Grow Up - The Danger of Being a Baby Christian” is about her life as a baby Christian. She was past fifty years old when she realized who she was in Christ! It was only after taking a discipleship class called “Masterlife” that she became aware of what was missing in her life. She didn’t know the person of the Holy Spirit! Before this study, she had always had difficulty with the meaning of the word sanctification; and she was teaching a women’s Sunday school class! She shares in this story what she had in common with the woman at the well, and how God dramatically changed her life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664239647

Betty Miles

Betty is a retired public school teacher. She has taught in several Oklahoma locations, beginning with Oklahoma City and retiring from her favorite subjects to teach, drama and speech, at Okeene, Oklahoma. She also was blessed to be a Bible teacher at a Sunday night service for five years at the Diamondback Prison for men at Watonga, Oklahoma. She received her bachelor degree from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and her masters degree from Southwestern OSU in Weatherford, Oklahoma. She has two children, Vanessa Teichman and Jack Lorenz, and his wife Betty. Three grand children, Bo Teichman, and Kevin and Ryan Lorenz. Betty Miles’s father, George Dickey, was a Baptist preacher in several Oklahoma towns and last pastored in Panacea, Florida prior to his death. She currently resides at the Baptist Village in Oklahoma City.

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CONTENTS

Notes in context

Chapter 1:     The Woman at The Well

Chapter 2:     Five Husbands

Chapter 3:     The Good Husband (There was one!)

Chapter 4:     The Promise

Chapter 5:     Searching For Answers

Chapter 6:     Daddy Was A Preacher

Chapter 7:     The Way, the Truth and the Life

Chapter 8:     Discovering the Truth!

Chapter 9:     The Baby Christians at Corinth

Chapter 10:   The Carnal Christian

Chapter 11:   The Danger of Being a Baby Christian

Chapter 12:   Time To Grow Up Know The Holy Spirit!

Chapter 13:   Sanctification

Chapter 14:   Growing Up Takes A Lifetime

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dedicate this book to anyone who has gone through the trauma of sexual abuse, and all the tag alongs that come along with it… like verbal and physical abuse (especially if you knew not to tell…so you didn’t).

There is only one answer, or Person, who can give us back our self-esteem and a new perception of who we really are. What a discovery!

I want to thank my daughter (in-law), Betty Lorenz, who helped me get through this project! She was always there to proof read, type, and most importantly…to encourage!

*All profits from this book will go to prison ministry

NOTES IN CONTEXT

Page 88 in this book is Robert Morris’ paraphrase of what John said about his baptism in his book, The God I Never Knew (page 90 in Morris’ book). Published by WaterBrook, a division of Crown Publishing.

Page 53 in this book is a quote from Oswald Chambers from his book, My Utmost For His Highest (page 24 in his book).

Published in 1935, Renewed in 1963 by Oswald Chambers to Discovery House Publishers.

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THE WOMAN AT THE WELL

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Psalms 103: 10,11 NKJ

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.

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*All other scriptures in Chapter 1 are from John 4 The Living Bible

The Woman at the Well

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S amaria was an area that was carefully avoided by most Jews. Jesus, however, was not one of them. He and his disciples were leaving Judea and returning to the province of Galilee. But instead of going out of their way to avoid Samaria, they chose to go through this town.

After walking