"Strong Meat For Full-Grown Men: Notice, then, the function of the "strong-meat" of the living Word of God. It is intended to impart within God's people that inward awareness of Truth and Error so that they themselves know where to draw the line. The "milk of the Word" will always be necessary for the nurturing of the new-born babes in the Church of God. They are spoon-fed... and no questions are in order. They simply receive it because it was given to them by one of God's "nursing" fathers (1 Thessalonians 2:7). So may the Lord help every minister who ministers the "sincere milk of the Word," that it may be that indeed... pure, and wholesome, and fresh. But as men grow to maturity the strong-meat will cause them to have clear vision, and clear perception. Therefore the true shepherds and fathers in the Church will not seek to keep the people in a perpetual state of babyhood, but will seek to bring them into a higher and more direct relationship with the True Shepherd. He is only a true shepherd and father as he pursues this objective. May God search out the hearts of His ministers everywhere, that they might discern what their real motives are: To lead the people of God into the liberty of true SONSHIP with the Father or... To keep them under control, as babes, in some form of ecclesiastical structure." -- George H. Warnock; Feed My Sheep, Chapter 5.