True spiritual growth is not seeking to increase 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…

The general but wrong concept of spiritual growth in the Church today is that the believers are born again into God’s kingdom as spiritual babes or infants who then grow up into maturity as they feed regularly on God’s Word, fellowship daily with God in prayer, and participate in diverse spiritual activities in the church…