> Pt 3-Greater Advocate

Failing to Thrive

January 14, 2018

Please turn in your Bibles to Hebrews 5:11-6:8

How would you describe your spiritual appetite?

3 Questions About Your Spiritual Growth:

• Are you getting the right diet?

• Are you building on the right foundation?

• Are you bearing fruit?

1: Are you getting the right diet? (5:11-14)

3 Stages to Spiritual Maturity

 Spoon Fed

 Feed Self

 Feeding Others

App: How’s your diet?

2: Are you building on the right foundation? (6:1-6)

6 Essential Doctrines (6:1b-2a)

-Repentance

-Faith

-Baptisms

-Laying on of hands

-Resurrection of the dead

-Eternal judgment

App: Are you holding on to Truth, or is there some compromise?

3: Are you bearing fruit?

1) Fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control.

2) Seeing others coming into and growing into faith

What is God’s Spirit speaking into your life today?

How must you respond?