SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION - CHANGED


Would you get out your message notes? We are in week four of the series called, “Heroes: Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives.” It’s based on the hit TV series called Heroes.

In the TV series there are people who have these special abilities and can do some really weird stuff like fly, heal themselves, enter dreams, stop time and transport themselves to other places and times in the past or future.

This morning the title of the message is “Spiritual Evolution”. Many Christians and churches are afraid of the word “evolution”. But the word simply means, “any process of growth or development.”

The Heroes television series is about people who have undergone a genetic mutation that exhibits itself in a special, supernatural ability. In Heroes it’s the evolution of the species. I thought about that in our lives as Christians. Every Christian has the ability to spiritually evolve. The moment you become a Christian your spiritual DNA went through a dramatic change that causes you to spiritually evolve, change, grow and develop. When you become a Christian, God implants into your DNA the Holy Spirit who totally changes you.

With that in mind, how well are you evolving spiritually? How well are you developing, growing, changing? Some of you, instead of evolving, your devolving. Instead of improving and moving forward, your backsliding. So, this morning I’d like us to look at How We Grow to Maturity.