Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (I Corinthians 14:20 ESV)
Childish
The world sees Christians as unsophisticated. The world accuses Christians of being socially, politically, and historically immature. The world thinks that Christians are old-fashioned, out-of-date, and silly.
But those are good things for us to be.
If being sophisticated means dwelling between the nuances of morals, ethics, and God’s Law, let us not be sophisticated. If being mature means having deadened consciences, let us not be mature. If being modern, timely, and serious means denying the eternal and reliable Word of God, let us not be those things.
Really, the world has it backwards. God’s society and Kingdom are true sophistication. God’s view of truth, relevance, and history are true maturity. God’s ways are true-fashioned, the right date and exciting.
We are peculiar, in these things, we get to be as “childish” as God.