Let There Be Continual and Lasting Growth

It is possible to go to church all your life for 50 years and never change. Many people are no more loving at the end of their lives than they were at the beginning of their salvation experience.

 
For some, it was a lack of growth because of the lack of edification within the body of Christ, and for others, they never were changed by Christ because they wanted only to be a part of a club out of pride, but never loved Christ.

 
John 14:15 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—…"

There are many pretenders who attend churches today who want the companionship of "nice" people, as well as feeling safe with these people, but they don't want Christ. They want Christ when they need Him, but don't want Him to bother them with His principles and commands.

 
There are many such people within the churches today who practice the rituals of attending and doing what the man up front tells them to do, but have no intention of being changed by what they hear.

 
We want to be believers who are growing and changing to be more like Christ all the time. We want our walk to be different from when we first began with Him.

 
May each believer seek to be changed by Christ as we seek Him every day for His purposes and not our own.