Growing in 2026

​It is an important part of Carolina Cornerstone that we focus intensely on spiritual growth. Why? Because most of the problems in your life come from spiritual immaturity. When we are not spiritually mature, we make dumb decisions. We build our decisions based on how we feel, which is a terrible basis for making decisions. "Well, I just feel like doing it." Well, your feelings are wrong a lot of the time and you are manipulated by your moods. Mature people make decisions based on truth, not based on feelings. So many of the problems in our world today, national debt and other things like that, happen because of immaturity. People do not know how to do what is wise, how to do what is mature. 

​The Bible tells us that growth is God's will for your life. Think for a moment about the babies in our church. They are cute. Kids are cute. But a child that does not grow up is not cute, that is tragic. It is possible to grow old and not ever grow up. You know as well as I do, I know a lot of old people who are spiritually and emotionally immature. They never grew up. They grew old without growing up. God wants you to not stay as a baby in diapers. He wants you to be spiritually strong. He wants you to be a man. He wants you to be a woman of God.

That is what we look at every spiritual growth campaign. Growth is God's will. Ephesians Chapter 4, there on your outline at the top, verse 14 says this, “Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.” 

We are not meant to remain as children, but we are meant to grow up, circle the word grow up, we are to grow up in Christ. What is the perfect picture of maturity? Look at Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate picture of spiritual, emotional, intellectual maturity. To have the thoughts of Christ and know how to respond like he did will be a whole lot better in your life.

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