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The Truth will disturb you

Spiritual GrowthLast weekend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit came to Melbourne. This gave me an opportunity to get my hands on the book Reveal: Where are you? by Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson. It’s a short book, and I read it on the same day that I bought it. According to the front cover it contains “the brutal truth about spiritual growth”, and “six provocative discoveries that will change the way you think”.

I have already referred to the book in a post back in August, but now that I have had the chance to read it, I can say that it really does contain some thought-provoking insights. The book categorises church attenders into four different groups depending on their spiritual maturity: Exploring Christianity, Growing in Christ, Close to Christ, and Christ-Centred. A key discovery is that there are two other distinct groups: those who are Stalled in their spiritual growth, and those who are at an advanced level of spiritual maturity but Dissatisfied with their church.

The book promises that more research will be done on these two groups, but it does indicate that churches have not done a good job of teaching mature believers that they are responsible for their own spiritual development. It seems to me that another reason for dissatisfaction is that those who are further along the spiritual path are less likely to be satisfied with a church which is run poorly.

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