Growing UP
Growing OUT
Growing DEEP
“We are called to grow into Christ-likeness and experience our true identity in order to live life for others and experience a deep relationship with God.”
Growing UP
Book One
Growing Into Christ-Likeness
Book Two
Experiencing Your True Identity
Growing UP
Growing UP
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Book 3
Living Life
For Others
Growing
OUT
Growing UP
Book 4
Experiencing A Deeper Relationship With God
Growing DEEP
Growing Into Christ-Likeness
SESSION ONE
What Does It Mean To Grow Into Christ-Likeness?
SESSION TWO
How Do We Grow Into Christ-Likeness?
SESSION THREE
What Does It Look Like Practically To Grow Into Christ-Likeness?
Session One
What Does It Mean To Grow UP?
What Do You Believe About Living The Christian Life?
Is your Christian life meeting your EXPECTATIONS and DESIRES?
Is there something MISSING or something MORE you want out of your Christian life?
INFORMATION without
REVELATION and
APPLICATION will lead to no
TRANSFORMATION
REVELATION
God, supernaturally making His truth personal to you and to your life situations.
“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. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, GROWING UP in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.”
EPHESIANS 4:14-16
GROW
“inner spiritual growth”
“Instead, we will speak the truth in love, GROWING in every way more and more LIKE CHRIST, who is the head of his body, the church.” Ephesians 4:15
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become CONFORMED to the IMAGE OF HIS SON , that He might be the first-born among many brethren.” Romans 8:29
CONFORMED
“Align Our Thoughts and Beliefs With Another”
FORMED
“My children, with whom I am again in
labor until CHRIST is FORMED
in you.”
Galatians 4:19
“In the same nature as”
TRANSFORMED
“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being TRANSFORMED into HIS LIKENESS with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
“METAMORPHOO”
“a change of the form or nature of a person into a completely different person by supernatural means.”
TRANSFORMED
“METAMORPHOO”
a change of the form or nature of a person into a completely different person by supernatural means.
How True Would This Be Of You If You Were Living From CHRIST-LIKENESS?
“growing in every way more and more like Christ”
Ephesians 4:15
“to become conformed to the image (likeness) of His Son”
Romans 8:29
“being transformed into His (Christ) likeness”
2 Corinthians 3:18
“My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you.” Galatians 4:19
Growing Up = Transformed Into Christ-Likeness
FORMED
TRANSFORMED
GROW
CONFORMED
GROWING UP
Christ’s being FORMED in you is the result of being CONFORMED to His image which occurs when you are being TRANSFORMED into CHRIST-LIKENESS. (growing to become more like Christ)
Growing Into CHRIST-LIKENESS: Walking in, living from and experiencing the supernatural characteristics of Christ in us.
Uncond. Love Victory Worth Acceptance Faith Freedom Patience Strength Peace Faithfulness Forgiveness Security
Understanding Fearlessness Wisdom Discernment Adequacy Humility Christ-confidence Kindness Rest Righteousness Selflessness Courage
Compassion Boldness Joy Gentleness Christ-control Power
CHRIST-LIKENESS =
Supernatural Characteristics of Christ
Uncond. Love Victory Worth Acceptance Faith Freedom Patience Strength Peace Faithfulness Forgiveness Security
Understanding Fearlessness Wisdom Discernment Adequacy Humility Christ-confidence Kindness Rest Righteousness Selflessness Courage
Compassion Boldness Joy Gentleness Christ-control Power
Growing Into CHRIST-LIKENESS =
Walking in, Living from and Experiencing
CHRIST’S:
“You will know the truth and the truth will set you FREE.” John 8:32
If the truth will set you free, what will the be the result of living from the LIE?
WHAT LIE
HINDERED ME FROM
GROWING UP?
My Dad Wounded Me:
PHYSICALLY
EMOTIONALLY
VERBALLY
By age 18, I was in BONDAGE to:
FEAR
ANXIETY
I FELT:
INADEQUATE
INSECURE
REJECTED/REJECTABLE
STRONG
SELF-CONFIDENT
INDEPENDENT
SUCCESSFUL
What I Wanted You To See!
“THE”
LIFE
“A”
Life
Two Ways To Live The Christian Life
JUST TELL ME WHAT
TO DO TO LIVE
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE!
“A”
Christian Life
You are living the Christian life
with YOU being the SOURCE
with God’s HELP to live it.
“A” LIFE
STEPS TO TAKE
FORMULAS
RULES TO KEEP
“TO DO” LISTS
GOD’S WORD
PRAYER
EVANGELISM
CHURCH
MINISTRY
X
X
X
X
This Was My “Spiritual” To Do List
X
(This is what I felt I had to do for God so that He would love me, accept me, and approve of me)
What Is Your
OBJECTIVE
If You Do
These
Things?
This Is What I Taught and Believed About Living The Christian Life?
This Is What I Taught and Believed About Living The Christian Life?
Freedom
Victory
Transformation
I TRIED TO ATTAIN SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIAN LIVING BY DOING
FOR
GOD
ANGRY
REJECTING
CONTROLLING
CONDEMNING
UNHAPPY
UNFORGIVING
Was not meeting our
expectations
We had ongoing unresolved conflict
Our needs were not being met
We were not happy or fulfilled
Greater emotional separation
I was a
SUCCESSFUL
FAILURE
as a
Christian
business
owner.
IMPATIENT
ANGRY
CONTROLLING
DEMANDING
MANIPULATIVE
FEAR OF FAILURE
After 30 Years As A Christian and NOT Growing Up
MORE BONDAGE
MORE DEFEAT
MORE WOUNDEDNESS
SELF-CONDEMNATION
HOPELESSNESS
After 30 Years of Living “A” Life I COULD NOT:
False �Beliefs
I Was Believing A LIE!
I can grow up SPIRITUALLY by ME being the SOURCE to PRODUCE spiritual TRANSFORMATION with God’s HELP.
I Was Still A
Grown Up
2 Year Old
After 30
Years
It is still
all about
ME!!
If We Don’t
Grow Up
Spiritually……
(i.e. Living “A”
Christian
Life?)
We Will NEVER Experience God’s Promises
MORE OF THE SAME OR WORSE
* MORE frustration
* MORE failure
* MORE defeat
* MORE bondage
* MORE disillusionment
* MORE inner turmoil
* MORE of the same or worse (i.e., no change or transformation)
FLESH
FLESHLY
BEHAVIORS
WE WILL STAY IN BONDAGE TO OUR FLESH AND FLESHLY BEHAVIORS
We Will
Be Continually
Deceived
By SATAN
Is This As
Good As It
Is Going To Get?
RESIGNATION
HOPELESS
Hardening
My Heart
Towards God
The DEATH that occurs in our hearts from CONTINUING to live from our FLESH and continually RESISTING God’s transforming power.
“52% think there is more to the Christian life than what they have experienced.”
Barna Group
“Only 13% of Christians say they are living a victorious Christian life.”
Gallup survey
“89% of Christians feel there is a disconnect between what God promises versus their experience.”
Reveal Research
EXHAUSTED!
DROWNING
Is “A” Christian life the life God intends for us to live, or is there ANOTHER
life we are to live?
“THE”
LIFE
“God never intended for you to live
“THE” LIFE
that only Christ can live in and through you!”
October 4, 1998
“I am THE way THE truth and THE LIFE.”
John 14:6
“I am the resurrection and THE LIFE.”
John 11:25
Jesus IS THE LIFE
THE Christian LIFE Is A PERSON.
It Is CHRIST Himself!
“In HIM we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28
“For from HIM and through HIM and to HIM are all things.” Romans 11:36
Philippians 1:21
“CHRIST who is your LIFE” Colossians 3:4”
THE Christian Life
CHECKLISTS
RULES
FORMULAS
CHRIST Himself
IS
IS NOT
Christ As THE LIFE
Means That He Is Your SOURCE
For Living
Life
“He is the
SOURCE
of your life in Christ Jesus…”
1 Corinthians 1:30
INITIATOR
PRODUCER
SUPPLIER
TRANSFORMER
Uncond. Love Victory Worth Selflessness Acceptance Faith Freedom Courage Patience Strength Peace Compassion
Faithfulness Forgiveness Security Boldness
Understanding Fearlessness Wisdom Discernment Righteousness Adequacy Humility Power
Christ-confidence Kindness Rest Gentleness
Compassion Boldness Joy Hope
Christ Is Your SOURCE For Christ-Likeness
Christ Is Your Source:
VICTORY – over the flesh, Satan, world. 1 Corinthians 15:57
FREEDOM – from defeating sin patterns and false beliefs. Galatians 5:1
HEALING – of your past or present woundedness. Psalm 147:3
God Is The Source To Make His Promises An EXPERIENTIAL Reality
If God Is THE SOURCE,
who is NOT the source to
live the Christian life?
2 Hesitations 3:15
The Lie Is That God Will:
If God is THE SOURCE,
why would He HELP you
be the source for
living THE Christian life?
Are You Going To Ask The Surgeon To Help You?
Adam and Eve Before The Fall
How Do We Know God Is To Be
The Source?
Adam Dependent
Eve Dependent
Spiritual Physical Emotional
GOD Man’s Source
LIFE
POWER
LIFE
POWER
God’s Design From The Beginning Was For Him To Be The SOURCE
ADAM
Spiritually dead
Self as the source
Adam and Eve’s Condition AFTER The Fall
GOD
SIN = SEPARATION
EVE
Spiritually dead
Self as the source
Man was left on his OWN to be his OWN source to meet his OWN needs, to solve his OWN problems,
and to TRY to make his life a success.
How do you think that was working?
What Did God Do To Restore What Was Lost?
The TWO Sides of The Cross
LIFE
SIN
The SIN Sides of The Cross
Christ
died for
your sins Ephesians 1:7
SIN
“He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven.” Ephesians 1:7
“He who believes in the Son has eternal life…” John 3:36a
Is Forgiveness
Of Your Sins
All You Need From
God To Live THE
Christian Life?
QUESTION:
Christ
died for
your sins Ephesians 1:7
God put the FULLNESS of HIMSELF back into man. – Colossians 2:9, 10
LIFE
SIN
“For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete”
Colossians 2:9,10
You contain ALL the faith that you will ever need in Christ.
The question is: “How much of the fullness of His faith will you EXERCISE?”
“For in Christ all the FULLNESS of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given FULLNESS IN Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.” Colossians 2:9, 10
“For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete”
Colossians 2:9,10
You contain ALL the faith that you will ever need in Christ.
The question is: “How much of the fullness of His faith will you EXERCISE?”
Within You Is The FULLNESS of God the FATHER, JESUS, and the HOLY SPIRIT.
Christ
died for
your sins Ephesians 1:7
God put His LIFE and
POWER in you.
1 John 5:12; Acts 1:8
LIFE
SIN
CHRIST’S LIFE
“God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has THE LIFE….” 1 John 5:12
Uncond. Love Victory Worth Acceptance Faith Freedom Patience Strength Peace Faithfulness Forgiveness Security
Understanding Fearlessness Wisdom Discernment Adequacy Humility Christ-confidence Kindness Rest Righteousness Selflessness Courage
Compassion Boldness Joy Gentleness Christ-control Power
CHRIST’S
LIFE
“This is the same mighty POWER that raised Christ from the dead….” Ephesians 1:19, 20
Created the heavens and the earth.
Opened the Red Sea.
Is holding the universe together.
Will RENEW your mind to the truth.
Will give you VICTORY over your sin, flesh and Satan.
Will set you FREE from your fleshly behaviors/strongholds.
Will HEAL your woundedness.
Will TRANSFORM you to think, feel, and behave like Christ.
God's Power
Christ
died for
your sins Ephesians 1:7
God put Himself in UNION with you.
John 14:20
LIFE
SIN
“In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20
We Are
In An
Inseparable
Union With God
Christ
died for
your sins Ephesians 1:7
God put the FULLNESS of HIMSELF back into man. – Colossians 2:9, 10
God put His LIFE and POWER in you. – 1 John 5:12; Acts 1:8
God put Himself in UNION with you. – John 14:20
LIFE
SIN
LIFE
SIN
SIN
LIFE
Christ
died for
our sins
Christ not only came to save us, He came to put His life in us to live THE LIFE that we cannot live.
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
CHRIST LIVES IN ME and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God…”
Galatians 2:20
God Put HIMSELF, His LIFE, and His POWER In You And Put Himself In UNION With You To Be The
SOURCE
FROM Whom To Live THE Christian Life
God will produce VICTORY.
God will produce FREEDOM.
God will produce HEALING.
God will SUPPLY your needs.
God will TRANSFORM you, your marriage, and your family.
We are not living FOR God.
We are living FROM God as our SOURCE.
KEY TRUTH
“I have come that they might have life and have it
ABUNDANTLY!”
John 10:10
Growing Up Is Living FROM Christ As Your SOURCE and Being TRANSFORMED Into Christ-Likeness