Growing in the Christian Experience
Last week we took the girls for their yearly check-up. As usual they checked their height and weight. They made sure that each limb flexed properly and they checked the spine. If they were due, they would have offered to provide the girls with vaccinations to ward off some terrifying disease. After they got all of the proper numbers from the exam they enter it into a computer and BAM! There is a chart that shows the growth curve. For the girls it shows the time since birth. Thankfully the girls are growing as they should be and are hitting all the benchmarks expected for their age. Wouldn’t it be great if we could see growth this easily with our spiritual life? A chart that tells us if we are doing it the right way? What if I told you THERE WAS!!!! Well not in a literal senses of a chart, but there is a way to see if we are growing and not living a stagnant life or indulging in a lukewarm faith. And we should use it to make sure that we are checking in on the sta