Order Births Growth
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Growth as a believer is not individualistic, it's corporate. God doesn't desire for the believer to try to grow alone, his plan for growth is the local church. He's appointed gifts (pastors, teachers, evangelists etc) to the church, for the building up and equipping of believers. So that we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of God. Eph 4:11-14. This is God's idea , the local church. However, even if you're in a working system and are not doing what you're supposed to be doing, you won't grow. What do you need to do? 1. Buying. This means to accept something as truth. How much of the truth you've heard from scriptures have you accepted as your truth? You need to buy the truth of the scriptures. 2. Practicing the truth you've accepted. It's not enough to hear and accept, you need to practice what you believe, walk in it. Be a doer. 3. Accountability. Being accountable, liable to be called to account. The believer should be accountable to the local church, he/she should submit to authority in the local church. The local church is the highest authority in the life of the believer. 4. Obedience. The believer is to learn to obey instructions in the local church. Not downsizing it, not adjusting it, but simply obeying it
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