The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

80 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALWORD OF Goo. The BIBLE is the written Word of God, just asChrist is the personal Word of God. This growth is the characterdevelopment that REQUIRES TIME and comes largely by EXPERI­ENCE.Above all, it requires continua! BIBLE STUDY to show ONE'sSELF approved of God, as well as much continua! and earnestPRA YER. When you study the Bible, ÜOD is TALKING TO YOU.When you PRAY, you are TALKING TO HIM. You get to reallyKNOW God irt this manner, just as you become better acquaintedwith people by conversation.Yet much of this spiritual character development comesthrough Christian fellowship with other spiritually begottenpeople in God's Church.Further, just as the human physical embryo and fetus aregiven physical nourishment through the human mother, God'sCHURCH is the spiritual MOTHER of its members. God's Church iscalled "Jerusalem above, which is the MOTHER of us all"(Gal. 4:26).Notice the exact parallel. God has set called and chosen ministersin His Church to feed the ftock, "for the perfecting of thesaints, for THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY (proclaiming Christ's gospelof the Kingdom of God in all the world], for the edifying ofthe body [Church] of Christ: till we all come in the unity of thefaith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfectman, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ"(Eph. 4: 12-13).It is the duty ofChrist's true ministers (and how few today), toPROTECT the begotten but yet unborn saints from false doctrinesand from false ministers!What a wonderful picture of God's reproducing Himself ishuman reproduction!And remember God intended human reproduction to be aFAMILY matter. It adds human children to the human FAMILY. TheHUMAN FAMILY is the exact TYPE ofthe ÜOD FAMILY. God has bestowedMARRIAGE and FAMILY life on NO OTHER form oflife excepton HUMAN S, whose potential it is to en ter the F AMILY OFGoo!But consider further! As the physical human fetus must grow