Growth: Through Discipleship

Growth comes through discipleship

Putting away the sinful self

​ HCSBSo rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

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Moving on from basic teaching

​ HCSBTherefore, leaving the elementary message about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

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Maturing in thinking

​ HCSBBrothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

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Persevering in faith

​ HCSBBut endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

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Contributing to growth in the church by exercising gifts

​ HCSBAnd He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,

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