How Do You Grow?

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How Do You Grow?

Recently I was reading through the F260 Bible Reading Plan, and I came across a passage I had read before but that struck me in a unique way. I was reading 1 Corinthians 8 where Paul discusses the very foreign idea of eating food sacrificed to idols. But what struck me was what Paul said first:

“Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that ‘all of us possess knowledge.’ This ‘knowledge’ puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God” (1 Corinthians 8:1–3). 

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An Invitation to Our Next Equip Series: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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An Invitation to Our Next Equip Series: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

All of us in one way or another long to grow and mature. As Christians, we long to grow in our relationship with God. We want to become mature Christians who look more and more like Jesus. For this reason, we focus on becoming spiritually healthy. We read our Bibles, pray, go to church, serve, give, etc. While all of these things are absolutely essential to the Christian life, what many of us fail to see is that they are not enough. 

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Loving to Maturity

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Last week we established that spiritual maturity is much more than just head knowledge. Pastor Dustin wrote that in order for one to be spiritually mature, they must first and foremost love God. Loving God gives us the perfect foundation for growing in our spiritual journey. After we claim that spiritual maturity is impossible without loving God, we must then begin to take next steps, so that our belief can be followed by actions.

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A Good Place to Start

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A Good Place to Start

Have we missed what spiritual maturity looks like? That was the question I asked last week. I have been processing that question for months now, and as I shared last week, I feel as though we have missed it. Sadly, the culture in our churches have relegated spiritual maturity to knowledge. If spiritual maturity is not measured by how much we know about God, then how should spiritual maturity be measured? Last week, my simple answer was this: Jesus. If we want to have a picture of what spiritual maturity looks like, we should look no further than Jesus himself. He lived a life free from sin and in complete communion with the Father. The question then is how do we imitate Jesus and become more like him?

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Have We Missed What Spiritual Maturity Actually Looks Like?

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Have We Missed What Spiritual Maturity Actually Looks Like?

Over the past few months, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with Christians and the church. But I can’t complain too much because as I’ve become more frustrated with Christians, I’ve become frustrated at myself. The frustration that I face is because of an epidemic facing the church in the United States, an epidemic that I often help fuel.

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