2/5 Spiritual Adolescence

Spiritual Maturation series continues.

WARNING: There's a typo re the htm in the 3rd screen. The right address is: http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan3.htm#SpirTeen .

Spiritual Adolescence is the watershed that most Christians don't cross, because it is so tumultuous. Basically, the Spiritual Adolescent crosses over from emotionally-childish ideas of God and spirituality, to wanting more: and he begins to question, to seek INTELLIGENT answers from the Word itself. So in this 2/5, the inner soul change, threats to it, and what graduates him to Spiritual Adulthood, are explored.

The tumult arises as he realizes the childish focus on body do's, singing, morality-as-spirituality are NOT what Bible says; that these things do NOT buy him a nice life.

So that denouement (really discernment) will either catapult him into serious learning of Bible, or will carom him off into apostacy (i.e., sticking to rah-rah Christianity, becoming legalistic, or 'losing faith' and switching to some other belief entirely). Need to habitually learn to use 1Jn1:9 and learn/live on Bible, to grow up to the next stage.

Underlined portions in the 3rd and 4th row of boxes are most important in the transition. Divine Discipline will warn the Adolescent of his REVERSING retardation, Colossians 3:25 and Hebrews 12:5ff.

Because Youtube can't display it well, you'll need to download the Word doc depicting the stage, which is on page 3 of that doc: http://www.brainout.net/SMP.doc .

If your version of Word precedes 2002, try this link: http://www.brainout.net/SMPdocforOlderWordprograms.doc . If that doesn't work, please message me.

I apologize again for the scratchy sound. I can't fix it. RealPlayer's 3-band Equalizer set at max Bass, 0 Mid, and near-top Treble, helps.

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