BIBLE STUDY

• Growing Spiritually as a Christian

A person who is living on milk isn’t very far along in the Christian life
and doesn’t know much about doing what is right.

Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves
to recognise the difference between right and wrong
and then do what is right.” (Hebrews 5.13-14 NLT)

• The need for spiritual growth and maturity

We are living in terrible days of confusion, scepticism and apostasy (abandonment) of the faith. Christianity as originally taught and lived by the apostles has been increasingly watered-down till almost nothing of its essence has been left. Scandals, controversy and weakness in traditional Christian churches have exposed the faith to ridicule before the world.There is therefore a huge gap in society for practical, sincere and genuine Christianity to fill. Christians who practise what they preach will naturally lead others to know the Living God by their life example.
But most people in the church today are dying before they are even born spiritually. Their sin has been to neglect their spiritual life, often because they are too busy with their physical, worldly life. The result is that their testimony of life to the world has been very weak and ineffectual.
As a Christian you should long for the same faith and life testimony that the first century church had. The writer of the Acts of the Apostles reports:The apostles were performing many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And the believers were meeting regularly at the Temple… Everyone had high regard for them. And more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord – crowds of both men and women.As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by.
Crowds came in from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed. (5.12-16)There were miracles, crowds, conversions and high regard of the onlookers. The Gospel spread throughout the known world faster than wild fire, at a time when there were no leaflets, no posters, no newspapers, no radio and no TV. Christianity started out in full force because the first Christians built up their faith on prayer, action, togetherness and the Word of God.
Through this study ‘Growing Spiritually as a Christian’ we will be together every Wednesday to meditate on the Word of God, seek the Holy Spirit in prayer and take action upon what we learn.
The study is for those who want to move from the milk to the solid food of God’s Word; those who want to grow and be more mature spiritually; for everyone who wants to uphold the true Christian faith in these last days of heresy.