Spiritual Growth
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Part 2: Keep Growing in Your Knowing
In my last blog post, I explained that Knowing is a Scriptural theme and pointed out how it often overlaps with the concept of spiritual maturity in the Apostle Paul’s writing. Furthermore, I shared passages of Scripture that reveal the way Paul aligns spiritual growth with an ever-increasing knowledge of God and His truth (Romans 12, Philippians 2-3, Colossians 3, and Ephesians 3). My post concluded: If we who “know God” want to mature in our relationship with God, we will need to increase in our knowledge of God. In other words, the spiritually healthy life is one where a believer keeps growing in his or her knowing. The Pitfalls…
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Keep Growing in Your Knowing
Have you ever thought about what it really means to know? To know could refer to intellect. We can know information. To know could refer to recognition. We can know what is right, wrong, good, or bad. To know can contain a layer of influence. What we know affects our behavior. To know could refer to relationship. There are people we know, then, there are people we know. To know can refer to a degree of intimacy. It’s the type of knowing that produces confidence and safety through personal, up-close experience. When we stop to unpack what it really means to know, we notice the way its various meanings play…