FROM SALVATION TO PERFECTION / LET US GO ON TO PERFECTION

God wants you to leave the elementary principles of Christ -- to leave, (not abandon), the elementary principles about Christ. He wants you to progress beyond them.

Spiritual Infancy is lack of growth after the new birth.

The spiritual infant is concerned with self rather than service.

The spiritual infant is concerned with argument rather than action.

The spiritual infant looks to people rather than the Master.

Christ's teachings on the basics are what the author of Hebrews is getting at. The basics are to be studied, fed upon as an infant would feed upon milk. Once the foundation has been laid you are to improve not only in your understanding but in your practice and attitudes concerning spiritual things.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 6:1