Growing up steadily in all things into Christ is not optional but mandatory for all believers. God predestines everyone born into God’s family to grow steadily and healthily until they reach the full measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. The Scripture reveals that the primary purpose for which God has set men up as spiritual leaders in the Church is our spiritual growth…

As a lizard can’t grow up into a crocodile or a rat to grow up into a cat, a sinner can’t grow up into Christ, notwithstanding the years he spends in a church, his position in a church, or his activities in a church. Until you are born again, you don’t have and cannot have the divine potential to grow up into Christ or become like Christ…

True spiritual growth is not about increasing the size, height, stature, power, or glory of the new creation in Christ. True spiritual growth is not seeking to improve on God’s divine and holy nature we received at the new birth, or the quality of God’s kind of righteousness imputed to us at the new birth through faith in Christ…