Sermon Promo –

Growth is Gradual

Do you remember the 1988 movie “Big” staring Tom Hanks? A pre-teen boy makes a wish to be an adult and low and behold, he wakes up the next morning a 30-year-old man.  As you can imagine this boy gets himself into some interesting situations trying to live as a man, discovering that his quick movemet into adulthood was not the good thing he thought it would be. That movie is fictional because physical growth doesn’t happen like that. And neither does spiritual growth. Spiritual growth happens gradually throughout our entire life as we mature and become more like Christ. In 2 Peter 1:5-8 the Apostle Peter outlines a number of areas the believer is to grow in . . . gradually. The interesting thing about spiritual growth is that it happens through the hard things of life: our failures, hurst from others, our disappointments, and just the stresses that come from living in a fallen world. But that’s the point . . . growing spiritually is growing beyond dependance on the natural world to greater dependance on Christ. Join us Sunday for this important message from Pastor Andrew.