Spiritual maturity manifest
Rev. Heath Bleyenberg expounds on Ephesians 4 to describe the observable marks of spiritual maturity in the Christian life, particularly emphasizing humility, meekness, patience, and forbearance as evidence of growth in Christ. This pastoral article calls believers to examine their spiritual development and understand what it means to grow "up into him in all things" as mature members of the body of Christ.
Are you growing? Are you maturing? Are you developing? Even as a little boy grows and develops into a full grown man, so the Word of God calls us to grow and develop. We are to grow up into Jesus Christ, even "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13). This is what we considered last time -- the call to spiritual maturity in Jesus Christ and the fervent desire that must be ours all our life long to grow up into Him who is our Head (Dec. 1, 2022,...
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