Growing Like Jesus (Intro)

September 2, 2010

Christian Standard

Christian Standard introduces eight essays from contributors and Publishing Committee members reflecting on what has helped them grow intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually.

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Growing Like Jesus in Every Area of Life

This article introduces a series of essays from Christian Standard contributors and Publishing Committee members on growth. It reflects on Luke 2 and the way Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and people.

Christian growth includes spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social dimensions.
Jesus’ own growth offers a pattern for whole-life maturity.
The article links to eight essays answering the question, “What has helped you grow?”

Mention growth to a Christian audience, and their thinking quickly goes to the spiritual. Yet “Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” (Luke 2:51, 52). He showed us that growing close to God is connected with every other kind of growth, too. The intellectual, physical, and social dimensions of life all connect to the spiritual. And growth in any of these areas is most successful when accompanied by growth in the other three.

This week we asked eight friends, Christian Standard contributing editors or members of our Publishing Committee, “What has helped you grow?” Their answers can help all of us to grow like Jesus.