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Our full salvation begins with God’s hesed attachment love. Healthy spiritual maturity includes all relational maturity plus the relationship Jesus had with the Father. Our discipleship starts by developing loving attachments.
Healthy spiritual maturity requires us to identify and address our character iniquities by training essential relational skills in hesed relationships. More mature and less mature church members must form lasting hesed attachments. We must be transformed in every generation; otherwise, the church will pass on iniquities and call them “spiritual.” See appendix B for relational resources, including
Healthy spiritual maturity requires guidance from God in real time. Without input from God, we might reach normal human maturity but will not be transformed. Dallas agrees; in his Hearing God, we find him affirming God’s active presence in forming disciples.
Healthy spiritual maturity requires the correction of memories that persuade us we have been abandoned by God. The memories that bother us most make us feel God is not hesed. Unhealed wounds allow evil to fester and character diseases to grow in churches. We need a bit of skill to deal with dark spirits. We also need to address iniquities of character that grow unaddressed in churches like weeds. Character disease has killed many churches and left others in critical condit...
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Healthy spiritual maturity requires us to grow a full identity but remember we are still quite small. When we think we are bigger than we are, we become proud, tired, vulnerable, and self-justified. Spiritual disciplines help us stay small and let God be large. Dallas and friend...
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Healthy spiritual maturity requires exercise. We exercise by actively attaching to our e...
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that grow disciples constantly test their attachment skills in moments when people are “not on our side.” The church has done most damage exactly at this point as well. When we try to win, we lose. When we learn to attach with...
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what happens when people learn the character of Christ the way the brain learns character?
