Aim: To continually mature more and more into the image of Christ.
Why growth is important for believers: because its absence evinces spiritual death, and because its presence supplies spiritual encouragement.
Exegesis: The ''tools'' of spiritual growth: God's Word—illumined in the Church by the Spirit (vv. 1-3); God's Church—established on the Spirit's inspired Word (vv. 4-5); God's Spirit—speaking to the Church by the Word (v. 6).
Further application: How growth occurs in believers: through faithful actions, performed individually and corporately; and through a faithful Savior, whose work never fails.
Key Verse: v. 2 ''As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby...''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.