An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness
After we’ve come to faith in Christ, God leaves us in this world for a very clear purpose: his own glory. But how are we to glorify God for the rest of our lives? The Bible reveals that God has laid before every Christian two infinite journeys which we are to travel every day: the internal journey of growth into Christlike maturity, and the external journey of worldwide evangelism and missions. This book is a road map for the internal journey, laying out how we are to grow in four major areas: knowledge, faith, character, and action. In this book, we’ll learn how God grows us in knowledge, faith, character, and action. We’ll also discover that spiritual knowledge constantly feeds our growing faith, faith will transform our character, our transformed character will result in an array of actions more and more glorifying to God, and our actions will feed our spiritual knowledge. This upward spiral will lead us to become more and more like Jesus Christ in holiness. And not only will this book help us understand Christian growth in detail, it will also give us a passion to grow every day for his glory.
Top Highlights
“Furthermore, I will argue that sanctification occurs in a cycle that follows this order: growing knowledge increases faith, increasing faith transforms character, transformed character produces action, and action feeds knowledge.” (source)
“In this book, I will argue that all of Christian maturity can be found under four major headings: Knowledge, Faith, Character, and Action.” (source)
“The Church needs to reclaim a Bible-saturated, Spirit-drenched emphasis on both of these infinite journeys, learning that they are absolutely intertwined. It is impossible for the Church to make progress externally to the ends of the earth if there are no Christians mature enough to pay the price to go as missionaries and martyrs. And it is impossible to make genuine progress in sanctification if the people only read good Christian books and stay in classrooms, but refuse to get out into the world as witnesses. These journeys are mutually interdependent: without progress in one, there can be no progress made in the other.” (source)
“As Christians, we should think of time as opportunity to grow in righteousness.” (source)
“As I will argue in this book, the goal is for the Church to make mature disciples (learners) of Christ: disciples who are taught the fullness of his word and obedience to all of his commands. We shall see that this involves an inherited pattern of right doctrine and right living being used faithfully to help new converts conform to Christ fully, with the goal being comprehensive obedience.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness
- Author: Davis, Andrew M., Dr.
- Publisher: Ambassador International
- Publication Date: 2013
- ISBN: 9781620203354
