Growing in God

Workers' Service
Pastor Dennis Heppner
My notes

2 Peter 3:18

The norm if the Christian life is to grow in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

In human sense growth is how we put in. In God's sense it is how we open ourselves to God.

Every Christian is designed by God to grow in Christ.

God has a plan for eveyone of us. We need to grow in God. It is an ever increasing changing growing becoming of how God wants us to be. It does not happen in an instant.

If you let do somehing out of your life He will be doing something beautiful in it.

Ephesians 2:10

Growth - I get better and more valuable in the kingdom all the time.

Areas in which we need to grow
1. Character (in spiriual terms)
Development of personality = Identity, Integrity, morality

Who am I?

Romans 12:3
Look at ourselves realistically. We have strengths and weaknesses that need to be dealt with eventhough we are already a new being in Christ.

We need to know who we are so that we could be real with ourselves.

2. Capability
- development of gift and talent

You will never make a serious impact in God based on your talent alone. But your spiritual gifts would help you do what you have not done before. It is supernatural.

What can I do?

It is no longer what can I do but what can God and I do together.

Our capacity in God is only limited by our faith and what we have been called by Him to do.

Give up to get up.

We will grow in our capabilitites by humility and willingness.

3. Understanding
Development of our intellectual capacity.

What do I know?
- what is important to God?
- how does God work?
- what gets God's attention?

4. Relationships
- capacity to integrate with other human beings

How do I relate?

Luke 2:52

Who you are will determine:
- What you can do
- What you can know
- To whom you relate

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