Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 28th.

Once you become a Christian by grace through faith, the next phase is the lifelong

process of moving toward maturity.

Here's part two in the series on the path of spiritual maturity.

When a child is born, you expect that child to grow.

And after a few weeks, maybe, or a few months and you think something's wrong

this child's not growing because it's natural for them to grow. When you were

born again as a child of God, you became just that a child of God.

And likewise, you and I are expected to grow.

Now, being born again means that God has forgiven us of our sins and he's brought

us into a personal relationship with Him. That's salvation, that's being born again. So being born

again, we as believers, if we don't grow there's something wrong with us because

God intends for us to grow and to grow and to grow till the day we die.

We to grow spiritually.

And it's interesting in 1st John, those five chapters, 13irteen times, John identifies the Christians, believers,

as my little children.

And so God sees us as that.

And we walk years and years and years with him.

We become adults, always a child in our spirit,

yielding to him and recognizing him as our father, but to grow. And I wonder if you feel today that you're growing in your Christian life,

or would you be one of those persons who said, well, you know I grew for a while but

then I thought I've grown enough, I know a little bit about the Bible. I can quote some scripture.

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