1. Are You
Growing?
Ephesians 4:14-15
By David Dann

2. Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.

3. Are You Growing?
Ephesians 4:11-12
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,

4. Are You Growing?
Ephesians 4:13-14
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

5. Are You Growing?
Ephesians 4:15-16
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head -- Christ –
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

6. Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.

7. All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.
All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.

8. Are You Growing?
1 Peter 1:22-23
22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…

9. All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.
All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.

10. All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.
All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
How can we tell whether or not we are growing?

11. Are You Growing?
1 Timothy 4:15
15 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.

12. All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
Are You Growing?
One of the responsibilities of the local church is to help its members grow spiritually.
All Christians are expected to grow spiritually.
How can we tell whether or not we are growing?

13. Are You Growing?

14. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
Knowledge Of God’s Word

15. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
1 Peter 2:1-2
1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby…
Knowledge Of God’s Word

16. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
Romans 10:17
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Knowledge Of God’s Word

17. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
2 Peter 3:17-18
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;
18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Knowledge Of God’s Word

18. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
Hebrews 5:12
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Knowledge Of God’s Word

19. Knowledge Of God’s Word
Are You Growing?
Hebrews 5:13-14
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Knowledge Of God’s Word

20. Are You Growing?

21. Are You Growing?
Regular
Attendance

22. Regular Attendance Hebrews 10:24-25
Are You Growing?
Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Regular
Attendance

23. Regular Attendance 1 Corinthians 14:26
Are You Growing?
1 Corinthians 14:26
26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
Regular
Attendance

24. Are You Growing?

25. Desire To Serve The Lord & Others
Are You Growing?
Desire To Serve The Lord & Others

26. Desire To Serve The Lord & Others
Are You Growing?
Galatians 5:13
13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Desire To Serve The Lord & Others

27. Desire To Serve The Lord & Others
Are You Growing?
Luke 22:26-27
26 "But not so among you; on the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves.
27 "For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves."
Desire To Serve The Lord & Others

28. Are You Growing?

29. Resisting Temptation To Sin
Are You Growing?
Resisting Temptation To Sin

30. Resisting Temptation To Sin
Are You Growing?
James 4:7
7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Resisting Temptation To Sin

31. Resisting Temptation To Sin
Are You Growing?
Ephesians 6:14-16
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Resisting Temptation To Sin

32. Resisting Temptation To Sin
Are You Growing?
2 Peter 1:5-7
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
Resisting Temptation To Sin

33. Are You Growing?

34. Are You Growing?
Love For God & Man

35. Are You Growing?
John 3:16
16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Love For God & Man

36. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Are You Growing?
1 John 4:19
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
Love For God & Man

37. 15 " If you love Me, keep My commandments."
Are You Growing?
John 14:15
15 " If you love Me, keep My commandments."
Love For God & Man

38. Are You Growing?
2 Thessalonians 1:3
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other…
Love For God & Man

39. Love For God & Man John 13:34-35
Are You Growing?
John 13:34-35
34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Love For God & Man

40. Knowledge Of God’s Word. Regular Attendance When The Church Meets.
Are You Growing?
Knowledge Of God’s Word.
Regular Attendance When The Church Meets.
Desire To Serve The Lord & Others.
Resisting Temptation To Sin.
Love For God & Man.

41. Are You Growing?
2 Corinthians 13:5
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.

42. Are YOU Growing???