Milk to Meat - Part 2

Recap last week

Disciples must be made

Maturity and Growth is not automatic

To present all believers as mature is the goal (of leaders)

Hebrews tells us that the is MORE to know/understand/encounter regarding who Jesus is, but we’re limited in what we can receive if we don’t grow

Stages of Growth

Dead - Needing to be Born Again/Raised to Life

Infant

Child

Teen

Adult

That all would be become ‘teachers’ or spiritual fathers and mothers who reproduce and make disciples of those around them

Spiritual Growth: What do you look for?

Increased Knowledge

Head Knowledge

The knowledge of experience

Greater sense of intimacy - closeness/friendship

Deeper awareness/sense of Freedom

Producing Fruit that is consistent with the vine (Jesus)

All Interwoven

Q. Who spent time this past week asking and listening to the Holy Spirit about how he wanted you to respond to what was discussed last week? Where does he want to see you growing? experiencing more freedom? Being a trustworthy ‘teenager’ or a spiritual father/mother?

English Standard Version Chapter 2

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.