Aiming at Maturity
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Aiming at Maturity

The Goal of the Christian Life

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Aiming at Maturity

The Goal of the Christian Life

About this book

It seems that much of American Christianity has lost sight of the goal of growing to maturity in Christ. This loss of vision has had serious consequences for the quality of our witness and ministry. In Aiming at Maturity, Steven W. Rankin seeks to bring back into focus key qualities of spiritual maturity and summarizes important biblical passages to show the scriptural foundations that call for spiritual maturity. Rankin also addresses certain tendencies in popular Christian culture to reduce doctrinal truths to sound bites with the laudable but counterproductive goal to make doctrine memorable, therefore applicable. Thinking more expansively about certain key doctrines related to the work of Christ and the impact of grace contributes to growth toward maturity in a way that popular descriptions of these doctrines do not. Finally, Rankin also challenges readers to consider the important role of emotions in developing Christlike dispositions, which contribute toward producing the fruit of a mature Christian life. By looking at relevant modern research, Aiming at Maturity shows the inherent connection between thoughts and feelings that draw us closer to the actual biblical description of the heart.

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Maturity 
and 
Mission: 
The 
Corporate 
Dimension
149
in 
no 
way 
lessens 
the 
impact 
of 
Christ’s 
call. 
Clearly, 
if 
we 
do 
not 
commit 
ourselves 
to 
corporate 
maturity, 
we 
will 
not 
realize 
it.
We 
need 
some 
criteria 
for 
assessment, 
therefore, 
so 
that 
we 
can 
check 
progress 
in 
growth. 
Assessment 
presents 
a 
difficult 
challenge, 
be-
cause 
we 
oſten 
depend 
on 
quantitative 
measures 
for 
evaluation 
and 
we 
are 
talking 
about 
qualitative 
things. 
When 
it 
comes 
to 
“practical 
applica-
tion,” 
it 
becomes 
far 
too 
easy 
to 
develop 
a 
simple, 
relatively 
manageable 
list 
of 
criteria 
for 
measurement. 
e 
problem 
with 
this 
common 
response 
is 
that 
it 
tends, 
by 
reification 
and 
abstraction, 
to 
disconnect 
biblical 
prin-
ciples 
from 
relationship 
to 
God 
and 
others. 
Yet 
we 
must 
have 
some 
useful 
means 
for 
assessment. 
How 
are 
we 
doing 
on 
the 
path 
toward 
spiritual 
maturity? 
We 
will 
bring 
this 
study 
to 
a 
close 
with 
ideas 
to 
try 
in 
your 
personal 
life 
and 
in 
your 
group. 
e 
final 
chapter 
offers 
a 
framework 
for 
this 
task.

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