{"id":45399,"date":"2022-10-01T01:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ever-becoming-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:30","slug":"ever-becoming-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ever-becoming-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever &#8220;Becoming&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proverb which states this truth: &#8220;Experience is the best teacher.&#8221; It is definitely through day-to-day living that we come to understand what life is all about. What we did not understand as children, because of a lack of knowledge, we now know as adults. When we begin any new endeavor, we must first slowly gather and learn a fundamental knowledge of that endeavor, gathering more information and experience until we finally master it.<\/p>\n<p>We begin our Christian walk like that. We start out inexperienced and with little knowledge, but then we &#8220;grow&#8221; in our understanding and commitment (cf. Hebrews 5:13; 1 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 3:18; Colossians 1:9-10).<\/p>\n<p>Our Lord spent a good deal of His early life preparing for His ministry and work (Luke 2:40; Luke 2:46-47; Luke 2:52). Similarly, we are growing towards spiritual maturity in the ministry and work of the Lord (Philippians 3:13-15; 1 Corinthians 15:58).<\/p>\n<p>In our Christian walk, we can never say that we have &#8220;arrived,&#8221; but rather that we are ever &#8220;becoming&#8221; what God wants us to become. Let us therefore continue to learn and grow towards that end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Painful Process Of Growth<\/li>\n<li>Measuring Spiritual Growth<\/li>\n<li>Have We Measured Ourselves Lately?<\/li>\n<li>Which Direction Are We Growing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a proverb which states this truth: &#8220;Experience is the best teacher.&#8221; It is definitely through day-to-day living that we come to understand what life is all about. What we did not understand as children, because of a lack of knowledge, we now know as adults. When we begin any new endeavor, we must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/ever-becoming-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ever &#8220;Becoming&#8221; &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}