Quotes about Growth

Being a disciple maker is as simple as helping someone else experience the risen Jesus and draw closer to Him—just as happened in our own lives.

Anything worth achieving in this life requires time, patience, and some discomfort.

One thing I do know is that when I hold on tightly to the old things, God cannot fill my hands with the new.

You may not see the fruit of your labors instantly, but God himself notices and resides over every seed you are sowing. You are getting through. You are unstoppable.

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1—3

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can.

The spiritual disciplines are wisdom, not righteousness. But they are wise practices that train and transform our hearts.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches." All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don't have to do anything. You've just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by "walk by the Spirit" is essentially "live in dependence on God's Spirit.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.