The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of our Father. To ensure we are a part of this kingdom we need to ensure we have been adopted by and embraced God as our Father. If there are childish things in our lives it may be because we have not chosen to embrace God as our Father or have areas where this has not transformed our lives. True Christlike, childlike maturity comes from knowing God as our Father, and is a maturity very different than that which the world promotes, or fails to embrace. The task of the church is to help children keep their childlikeness and grow out of childishness as they grow up, embracing God as their Father and finding their role in the kingdom.