Five Ways God Helps your Faith Grow


Recently, I was given the opportunity to preach to the adult congregation.  I spoke on the five ways God helps your faith grow and how my church makes them happen. They are:

  1. Practical teaching - Hearing the Word and doing the Word are two very different things.  It is essential to our spiritual growth to learn how to apply what we learn about God and His ways to our lives.
  2. Private disciplines - Prayer, studying the Bible, serving, sharing the Gospel.  These are all disciplines that every christian should have in their lives and the more they practice them, they stronger their faith grows.
  3. Personal ministry - Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:2 that we are the Body of Christ.  Everyone has a place to serve in the gifts and abilities that God has given us.  Therefore a follower should be actively serving or looking for a place to serve.
  4. Providential relationships - In each followers faith journey they can point to one person who set them on their current path.  God places people in our lives to speak into it and effect our growth.
  5. Pivotal circumstances - There is a moment in everyone's faith journey where they did something for God or God did something in them that changed them forever.  It is a moment they will never forget.
You can watch the whole sermon here.



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  1. Carol AnnSeptember 22, 2016 at 7:27 AM

    What an inspirational sermon. I made some changes in my life recently. One of them included joining a ladies bible study and a life group at ET in Columbus. Your sermon drove home the message that I believe God is sending me.

    God bless you and your family!

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