The moment of conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ, when you are really born again, the Holy Spirit invades your spirit making you a spiritual infant. This is phase one of the Christian experience. Like physical birth you are “a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!” [2 Cor 5:17 AMP] Now we understand that there are four phases of spiritual life from 1 John, chapter 2. And John describes this first spiritual state…
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Spiritual Growth Seminar Part 3: Introduction to the Seven Steps To Maturity (audio/video)
Randy finishes the seminar with the teaching of the Apostle Peter who gives seven clear steps to take to become mature and serve the Lord Jesus. 2 Peter 1:4-10 (AMP) 4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. 5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to…
Read MoreSpiritual Growth Seminar Part 2: The Four Phases of Spiritual Growth (audio/video)
Randy explains God’s will for every believer is to change and mature through four phases of spiritual life that are similar to physical maturity: infant, toddler to teen (immaturity), young adulthood, and the grandfather/grandmother stage. God has planned each phase with specific goals, actions and responsibilities that the born again believer must experience.
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