The Dynamics of Spiritual Growth - Softcover

Springer, Kevin; Wimber, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340488107 ISBN 13: 9780340488102

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1990

Synopsis

Spiritual growth is crucial to the health of our Christian lives. It is the process we all go through (more or less successfully) in becoming like Jesus Christ. In this book Wimber attempts to provide criteria for measuring such growth. Starting with the need to submit to God's word and to turn to Christ, he outlines the way to maturity through intimacy with the Father and through being willing to yield to the Holy Spirit. The peaks and glories of a rich and fulfilling personal spirituality are, however, only one side of the coin. Practical obedience to God's call is necessary corollary. The gospel of self denial, true service to others, has never been the popular, easy way. John Wimber uses the term "power points" to describe those moments in our lives when we come to experience the essential truths to the Christian life, those crucial stages on the path of spiritual growth. He emphasizes that these are not "formulae" for maturity: intimacy with God is only possible through a dynamic, living, ever-deepening relationship with Him.

About this title

About the Author:

John Wimber, who died in 1997, is best-known as a great evangelist, a huge influence on the evangelical church worldwide and a pioneer of the system of church planting. He was founder of the Association of Vineyard Churches and in the 1980s a lecturer at Fuller Theological Seminary, where his course on miracles and church growth was the most popular ever.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0340488107
• ISBN 13: 9780340488102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256