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Point of No Return. Point of No Return. Rebuke: You can’t handle this truth (5:11-14). Maturity …. Is a process that takes time Is the normal progression for every believer Manifests itself by helping others move to maturity Grows through discipline and results in character.
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Point of No Return • Rebuke: You can’t handle this truth (5:11-14)
Maturity… • Is a process that takes time • Is the normal progression for every believer • Manifests itself by helping others move to maturity • Grows through discipline and results in character
Point of No Return • Rebuke: You can’t handle this truth (5:11-14) • Exhortation: Be carried on to maturity (6:1-3) • Warning: Point of no return (6:4-8)
“I oppose the Christian Church because, for all the good it sometimes does, it presumes to speak in the name of God and to propound and advocate beliefs that are outdated, demonstrably untrue, and often, in their various manifestations, deleterious to individuals and to society.” Farewell to God, Charles Templeton, p. vii
Point of No Return • Rebuke: You can’t handle this truth (5:11-14) • Exhortation: Be carried on to maturity (6:1-3) • Warning: Point of no return (6:4-8) • Encouragement: Better things (6:9-20)