Do I need inner healing for spiritual growth?

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Do I need inner healing for spiritual growth?
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Three aspects of spiritual growth

• Sinfulness ? Christlikeness
• Childishness ? Maturity
• Brokenness ? Wholeness
• These three aspects are inseparable

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Sinfulness ? Christlikeness(Gal 5 22 23)

• Love
• Joy
• Peace
• Longsuffering
• Kindness
• Goodness
• Faithfulness
• Gentleness
• Self-control

1. Apathy ?
2. Complaining ?
3. Strife ?
4. Impatience ?
5. Unfeeling ?
6. Hatred ?
7. Unreliability ?
8. Harshness ?
9. Lustfulness ?

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Childishness ? Maturity (1 Cor 13 11)

1. Instant gratification ?
2. Self-centredness ?
3. Rights ?
4. Play ?
5. Dependence ?
6. No cause-effect ? understanding
7. Emotion-driven ?

• Delayed gratification
• Agape-love
• Privileges
• Responsibility
• Ministry
• Understands cause-effect
• Spirit-led

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Brokenness ? Wholeness (Luke 4 18-19)

1. Inner person chaos ? reconstruction
2. Inner-outer person clash ? synergy
3. Person networks isolation ? embedded
4. Person environment maladjustment ? coping

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How spiritual growth really works
Messy
Perfection only after the second coming of Christ
Progress
Time
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How to go through all three processes

• Build relationship bridges with
• God
• Other people

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Building the Relationship Bridge (Matthew 22
37-39)
Knowing
Trusting
Serving