[boatbums]

I know what y'all are after. It is to gain instant spirituality and instant holiness and instant lovingness at the moment a second-touch "baptism in the Spirit" occurs, without going through the kind of progressive growth that Jesus subjected his selected and recruited volunteers to in a rabbinical schooling to prepare them for the greatest occupation ever offered to humans.

That is an excellent observation and the truth of it is abundantly observable today. Our faith GROWS as we grow in grace, but it is a process that cannot be rushed:

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. (Romans 5:1-5)

[imardmd1]

I am humbled by your attribution. perhaps some day my Captain will bestow that kind of perception on beggars like myself. Until that day, Maranatha!