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A Biblical Theology of Growth
Growth Spurt
God cares so much about this growth that He commands it in
His younger children.
- Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word,
so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the
kindness of the Lord (1Peter 2:2-3).
- Be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the
error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in
the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2Peter 3:18).
God cares so much about this growth that He causes it in
all His children.
- The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the
soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts
and grows - how, he himself does not know. The soil produces crops by itself;
first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head. But when
the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has
come (Mark 4:27).
- What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through
whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted,
Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one
who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth
(1Cor 3:6-7).
- May the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for
one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you (1Thess 3:12).
- We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren,
as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of
each one of you toward one another grows ever greater (2Thess 1:3).
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