Top 5 Things People Need from the Church to Grow as Disciples

December 30, 2014

By Phil Maynard

Encouragement to Take Personal Responsibility for Spiritual Growth
(Part 5 of Top 5 Things People Need from the Church to Grow as Disciples)

As people move toward maturity they should become less dependent on the local church to provide for their spiritual growth. They should begin to take responsibility for managing their own journey. They should begin to feed themselves!

Isn’t that what we all hope for with our own children? That they will develop the skills to feed and clothe themselves?

The strong tendency in the Church seems to be around providing the fertile scriptural soil for growth, but often without the kind of trellis or frame that tender spiritual shoots need to give them a meaningful direction. We do semesters of classes with a wide variety of Bible Study offerings. We provide the bes