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Overview of Christianity

Spiritual Growth

And that is all there is to salvation. In a moment of time a person can be saved by merely thinking that thought, expressing their belief in Christ.

Before salvation, you have no relationship with God, no functioning spiritual life, no spiritual life whatsoever.

After salvation, the doors of opportunity burst wide open and give you the most phenomenal life ahead of you, that is beyond anything you will ever be able to imagine.

Just as you came forth from your mother's womb and were born physically into this world, so too, when you express your faith in Christ, at that very first moment you are born spiritually. This is called being born again, for obvious reasons. Only this time you are now born into Gods family, and there you will remain forever.

Once you have been born, you cannot 'unborn' yourself. Birth is permanent and irreversible, regardless of whatever ridiculous arguments you can invent.

Prior to salvation you are said to be an unbeliever, and there is only one question placed before you, which is, 'What do you think of Christ?' With that you either accept or reject Christ. Acceptance occurs with your faith belief in Christ.

After salvation, you have many and daily questions placed before you, which are, 'What do you think of doctrine?'

And thus your real spiritual life begins.

Here, most folks end their spiritual growth and they go into coast mode and simply coast through life, advancing nowhere, gaining nothing, and never growing up in their spiritual life.

After salvation you have an objective set before you, namely spiritual maturity which consists of both spiritual growth and spiritual production.

But before you can attain either of those you have to have a functioning spiritual life.

And the functioning spiritual life is the easiest thing to obtain. It is simply confessing your sins to God the Father. 'Father I did this and that and this and that, etc.' as you list each of your remembered sins.

You commit a sin, and then you confess it.

You commit a sin and that deactivates your spiritual life.

You confess it and that reactivates your spiritual life.

It is really a pretty simple concept and process.

When you commit a sin, you are said to be out of fellowship.

When you confess the sin, you are said to be restored into fellowship.

Thus fellowship is the place of the functioning spiritual apparatus of your life.

Being out of fellowship is the place of a non-functional spiritual life.

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