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A Biblical Theology of Growth
Growth Spurt
 If God cares so much about this growth, we should care too.
- Pastors should care about the continued spiritual health of
the sheep under their care, not just how many are in his flock. No good shepherd
neglects the health of the sheep God has entrusted to him. Good shepherds
are faithful to graze and guard the flock.
- "Thus says the Lord God, 'Woe, shepherds of Israel who
have been feeding themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flock?… Those
who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed,
the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back,
nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have
dominated them'" (Ezek 34:2-4).
- I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life
for the sheep. He who is a hired hand…sees the wolf coming, and leaves the
sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches and scatters them (John 10:11).
- Members should care about their own continued spiritual progress,
as well as that of the other sheep in the flock.
- As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here
and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine…; but speaking
truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head,
even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what
every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part,
causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love (Eph 4:14-16)
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