For my internship with the College Ministry at College Church, I have been working for some time on a Growth Covenant, meant to focus my efforts to grow in various ways for the sake of serving God and his church. As part of the process I came up with lots of big picture objectives in these various categories of growth. I've tried to garner these objectives from God's Word, and so I thought that they in particular might be helpful to others. I know it was an illuminating process for me just to be able to set down in writing what I really think I should be aiming for as a Christian. Here's the first set:
Spirituality
1. To read the Scriptures regularly, delighting myself in frequent meditation on the riches of God's word.2. To be a man of prayer, one devoted to praying for God's purposes in the world, and especially his church, with vigor and devotion.
3. To rely upon the love of the Father in the close presence of Christ as mediated through the Holy Spirit during all my daily activities.
4. To have my mind and heart so well tuned together that in any study my heart sings for joy in doxology to him in whom all wisdom and knowledge consist.
5. To be more and more conscious of my absolute depravity apart from Christ, and thus have a sweeter and sweeter relish in his undeserved love for me.
6. To walk always in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit and not according to the flesh, as I seamlessly move from compartment to compartment of my life and labor.
7. To be a man in whom the fruits of the Spirit are truly blossoming, and not merely one operating effectively in spiritual gifts.
8. To use and cultivate the gifts of the Spirit in all love and regard for the building of the church and the glory of Christ.

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