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Luba
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Hello ! just would like to ask all of you what spiritual growth means for each and one of you personaly ? pls share your thoughts 
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gator82
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Each and every day the people you meet and greet, all nice, not nice, and just there, are all God's creations and therefore our sisters/brothers. They might be nice but you can learn from them. Accepted them for waht they are and grow in the faith,
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Dece81
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Spiritual growth to me means finding what feels right to you an embracing it and letting it fill those ever so human cracks we all have and feeling whole.
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Jullianna
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Spiritual growth is drawing closer to the Lord, learning the hows and whys of the things He says in the scripture, learning to release/surrender more quickly the things of this world that we want to hold onto that only draw us away from Him, learning to lean on Him and trust Him more and more as each day passes because He's so faithful and brings us through much (far more than we ever know), learning to wait for His voice and His answer (and being able to recognize it when it comes), allowing His heart to show through us so others can come to know Him as intimately as we do, understanding that the "rules" the world finds so hard to live by are meant solely for our loving protection, growing in peace and understanding that whatever happens to us in this life whether good or bad He will ALWAYS use for good.
I'm not much for formulas and outlines but I came across this diagram that was extracted from the book of James and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Steps by which we grow....
1) FAITH - Faith in who we believe, learning to lose our trust in the world and security in money. After all We don't believe that Jesus lied.
2) FRUIT - The things your Faith causes you to do. The culmination of works of service and love that having faith inspires within you. You deeds are not done to be seen but to show the love you know.
3) SACRIFICE - The things your faith weighs and measures and finds wanting, like things and stuff in your life that is debris & unnecessary, all falls away. You realize the responsibility and accountability to God you have for everything you own. The materialism that once moved us seems beyond meaningless.
4) EGO, SELF - This is where the essence of what you are is cast away for sake of Christ. All the degrees, accolades, titles, appearances of success is rendered meaningless for glory of God. You grow to find invulnerability in your humility.
5) LIFE - This is where your very breath is tied to the work that God has for you, to whatever end should find you. Having realized that anything done aside from God is meaningless, your life is a representation of fully acknowledging the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Phrases like, "I deserve" or "I need" are no longer in your vocabulary, only "We", "Us", "Our" and "God's will" matter.
Steps by which we grow....
1) FAITH - Faith in who we believe, learning to lose our trust in the world and security in money. After all We don't believe that Jesus lied.
2) FRUIT - The things your Faith causes you to do. The culmination of works of service and love that having faith inspires within you. You deeds are not done to be seen but to show the love you know.
3) SACRIFICE - The things your faith weighs and measures and finds wanting, like things and stuff in your life that is debris & unnecessary, all falls away. You realize the responsibility and accountability to God you have for everything you own. The materialism that once moved us seems beyond meaningless.
4) EGO, SELF - This is where the essence of what you are is cast away for sake of Christ. All the degrees, accolades, titles, appearances of success is rendered meaningless for glory of God. You grow to find invulnerability in your humility.
5) LIFE - This is where your very breath is tied to the work that God has for you, to whatever end should find you. Having realized that anything done aside from God is meaningless, your life is a representation of fully acknowledging the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Phrases like, "I deserve" or "I need" are no longer in your vocabulary, only "We", "Us", "Our" and "God's will" matter.
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Dece81
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I love this one. This is one I am working on. That and learning to be less judgmental, which also goes hand in hand with ego.
I guess the thing about really acknowledging the need for Spiritual growth is how it brings the real cost of what it means to be called a Christian into the light. The actual challenge of being honest with yourself and accountable to God is easily the hardest thing I've ever tried.