Development: Cultivating Your Needed Maturity

• Distinctive Discipleship – Designing Specific Plans for Christian Maturity
• Category #4: Development
• “present everyone mature” (Col. 1:28)

Evaluate

• Would you label yourself as maturing?
• You don’t have to be there yet, but you should be getting there.
• Every believer has been gifted in specific ways requiring distinctive efforts for development.
• Every believer has been placed in specific contexts warranting unique opportunities for development.

Examine

• What has God called me to accomplish?
• Using our gifts, we each contribute to one another’s maturity (4:11-12).
• Our work is incomplete until every church member is fully complete (4:13).
• The more spiritually mature we are, the less likely we are to drift away (4:14).
• It requires loving honesty to experience total development (4:15).
• The more you are who God called you to be, the more others will be who God called them to be (4:16).

Engage

• What part of my life needs further development right now?
• Your family and church would benefit greatly if you were more intentional with your progressive personal maturity.
• Your needed area to develop might not be a problem of sinning but a posture of slacking.
• God did not randomly gift you or haphazardly position you.
• Work on aligning your development with his calling.
• I need development in learning how to:
• How do I plan to mature in this area?