PDF Title: Becoming a Mature Christian
Author: Ron Christian
This book is part of a series.
- Book 1: Adventures In Biblical Faith!
- Book 2: Agony to Ecstasy!
- Book 3: Am I My Brother's Keeper?
- Book 4: And Jesus Taught Them Saying...
- Book 5: Are You an Authentic Person?
- Book 6: This Book
- Book 7: COME HOLY SPIRIT
- Book 8: Coming to Know God
- Book 9: Conquering the Enemies Within
- Book 10: Conversion and Consummation
- Book 11: Cultivating Christlike Character
- Book 12: Sin - Perversion of a Legitimate Desire!
- Book 13: Does the New Testament Teach Conditional Eternal Security?
- Book 14: Glimpses Into Reality - (As I Understand It)
- Book 15: Glimpses of Heaven's Glory
- Book 16: God For All Seasons
- Book 17: God's Descent to Planet Earth!
- Book 18: God's Rescue Plan for Lost Mankind!
- Book 19: Happy Healthy Home!
- Book 20: Here He Comes!
- Book 21: How Firm a Foundation!
- Book 22: How to Obtain and Maintain Eternal Salvation
- Book 23: How Wide Is God's Mercy?
- Book 24: In Memory
- Book 25: Jesus - The Great 'I Am'!
- Book 26: Law, Love, and Life!
- Book 27: Let Us Hold Fast
- Book 28: Living the Life of Joy!
- Book 29: Lost in Wonder, Love and Praise
- Book 30: Marks of a High Calling
- Book 31: Miscellaneous Words of Wisdom
- Book 32: Mountain Peaks of Salvation History
- Book 33: Our Father Who Art In Heaven
- Book 34: Prayers and Affirmations
- Book 35: Seeing God Through Nature!
- Book 36: Soaring Into the Heights!
- Book 37: Stair Steps Into Heaven's Glories!
- Book 38: The Balanced Life of Stewardship
- Book 39: The Marks of a Great Church
- Book 40: The Parable of the Kicked Pinecone!
- Book 41: The Race of Life!
- Book 42: The Super Natural-Natural Life!
- Book 43: United in Christ!
- Book 44: We Have a God of Love!
- Book 45: Word Pictures for Dynamic Living!
Summary#
Becoming a Mature Christian is a devotional Bible study by Ron Christian based on 1 Thessalonians and focused on the practical growth of Christian character, holiness, faith, hope, love, encouragement, and sanctification. The book proposes that spiritual maturity begins with receiving and proclaiming the Gospel, then grows through disciplined love, moral purity, diligent work, mutual encouragement, and steadfast hope in Christ’s return. Christian presents the mature believer as one whose faith is active, whose love overflows toward fellow believers and outsiders, and whose life displays integrity in ordinary responsibilities. The study also emphasizes the marks of spiritual leadership, the ministry of encouragement, the life of holiness, hope in an age of despair, Christian attitudes toward death and Christ’s coming, and the importance of being a mature church member. Its central message is that Christian maturity is not abstract or merely doctrinal, but practical, relational, holy, hopeful, and empowered by God’s grace through the Holy Spirit.