Five Friends or The Beautiful Letdown

It’s a time of revelation when God is showing something about Himself and about His Messiah. And it’s an environment of tremendous spiritual growth for some people. AND it’s an opportunity for US to consider a setting that’s VERY fertile for growth and take stock – what does a spiritually fertile growth environment look like? How can we identify one? Is it possible that YOU are in the midst of such a situation even NOW and don’t recognize it? And, of course, IF and WHEN we face conditions favorable to rapid spiritual growth what (if anything) should be our response?

Let’s look at four indicators that this was a time of revelation and growth and see if these may be existent in our own recent experience: This was a time of:

1. Controversy
2. Companionship
3. Commotion and
4. Conclusion.