Say Amen if your early Christian days were Jesus-blazing hot, literally.
Me too.
My University days, the days when I first “embraced the things of God,” featured lots of adrenaline.
In fact, I still empathize with Christians attempting to follow through the book of Acts and raise the dead, as soon as they are saved.
Because that’s what new believers often look like, in his devotional “Morning and Evening”, Charles Spurgeon says “young piety carries a high sensitivity to sin” (and I guess a high sensitivity to a lot more)
I empathize with any new believer’s passion, yet I can’t help but also think of what eventually often happens along the way, new believers (and sometimes those that first disciple them) are nowhere to be seen, spiritually, decades down the road!
My early (University) Christian experience showed me that folks that once delivered church brochures at hostel doors, led fellowships, pioneered fasting seasons, mobilized for retreats are often spiritually defeated, decades later.
Why?
My suspicion is that for some, the zeal just goes down but the faith remains, fair maybe?
More worrying however are those whose spiritual vitality and fervor completely dissipate as the years go by.
And I mean the people who first pointed you to Jesus but now would point you to some other ideology.
I mean the girl in fellowship for whom feminism became more convincing, the prayer warrior guy whose first job after campus only brought excuses from fellowship, the job placement that displaced, the scholarship trip that, well.
Or maybe yourself, whose appetite for the spiritual is not what it used to be.
In 1 Tim 4:16 Paul tells his protege Timothy to “watch his life and doctrine closely for in doing so, he would save both himself and his hearers.”
Jesus also warns of the dangers of a seed that doesn’t take root, concluding how the birds of the air came and devoured them (Matt 13:4).
Christian ministry is built on Doctrine rather than merely subjective experience.
Could the later be why many of us find ourselves spiritually limping years down the road – even after our supposed conversion experience?
If you no longer uphold or trace any Christian example in the people that first introduced you to Jesus, consider the admonition of the same Apostle to “run the race as to get the prize, lest after preaching to others, you are disqualified too.” (1 Cor 9:24)
Where are the people who first cultivated your faith in the Lord?
If they still model faith, praise God and learn from their ways, if they don’t— “stand just In case you think you are standing.” (1 Cor 10:12)
And having done so, may these combined experiences reinforce a lesson for us all, youthful Ugandan Churches — that the best way you prepare believers for a life of spiritual vitality is to ground them in the word of God, that remains when the grass of withers and the flowers of fall. (Isaiah 40:8)
Because like Mike Bickle reminds us, “(Christian) radical is not defined by how high you jump during a worship service, but how you walk after you come down. “
MULEEFU 
This Is great! Life and doctrine! 👌