Using specific examples describe your spiritual growth ??

Question

survey question please answer .

Answer 1

How can that fit into a survey?

Answer 2

Specific examples? I don't know what you mean. You mean like passing Grade 1 Theology? Overcoming desire? Becoming a vegetarian? How do you get 'specific examples' when spiritual growth is a personal and essentially internal process?

But if you mean can I identify particular stimuli that triggered 'advances' in my progress along the path to perfection, er.. maybe.

Age 8-18 Interested in things oriental.
Age 18 Read book on Buddhism.
Age 18 Decided Buddhism not for me.
Age 20 Read Wú Chéng'ēn's 'Monkey'
Age 21 Discovered Taoism.
Age 25- Read lots of comparative religion.
Age 26 Read 'Adventures of Wim' - realised parallels with 'Monkey'.
Age 42 Had mid-life crisis.
Age 42 Discovered 'Mindfulness' and Zen.
Age -45 Practiced Buddhism for a while.
Age 45 Decided to become a nobody.

There you are. 50 years of spiritual growth in 11 lines.

I can't imagine quite what good it'll do you knowing that. But thank you for asking anyway. How's your journey going?
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Answer 3

Age 11 Salvation
Age 16 taught Bible school for kindergarten age
Wandered in the wilderness for almost 40 years
but God never took His hand off of me. The lie of evolution made me question my beliefs. Then the missing links started becoming all frauds and I fell down on my knees and quoted Apostle Paul, "May God be true and every man a liar." I begged God for forgiveness and He started showing Himself to me.
Age 52 God spoke audibly to me and I yearn for His voice.
Age 55 I was given a vision
Every day now at age 62 I know God is with me and leading me through life and speaks through me to others. I've actually had my voice taken over by Him. There are many more examples, but not enough room to write them all. His favor is awesome and His trials strengthen me. That peace that surpasses all understanding is knowing death has no sting - absent from the body present with the Lord.

Answer 4

1. Nipped into church when I was a kid and could not believe how much money the old geezers put in the collection plate. Hung around outside and coshed the vicar on the way back to the rectory

2. Caught by the fuzz on CCTV

3. Ordered to do community service at the church. Realised that by becoming a vicar I got paid, got a free house, and the collection money was mine legit.

4. Convinced everyone I was genuine and got ordained. Life o Reilly, me old mates

Answer 5

1: Raised in a christian home (This taught me about God but did not necessarily give me a relationship with Him)

2: Started asking questions and looking to the bible for answers
in conjunction with:

3: Seeing the work of God in my life (He really does answer prayers! Not always in the way I want Him to but I know that He is control and that He loves me).

And finally, the most important:

4. Prayer and reading the bible and having a personal relationship with God and fellow believers.

Answer 6

Ok here we go:

Born into fundamental Christian family:

Brought up in Church, learned that there are many "Christians" who are more interested in belittling and judging people than helping them.

Baptized at 12

Got serious about religion at 20, read the bible several times, gave life over to Christ, asked for relationship.

Spent next 13 years trying to please God, never heard from him, tried different denominations, ended up as born again, still waiting for an answer.

Started really researching the outcomes or "miracles/answers to prayer" found that 99% of stated miracles were actually stories told at meetings, and the follow up story is never revealed. Healings really don't happen, people feel great at the meeting and profess to be healed, but later die from their affliction, or have a remission, feeling like they didn't have enough faith.

Realized that if God wasn't interacting with me, he either didn't want me, or didn't exist.

Read the Bible with a critical eye and realized there are thousands of discrepancies and contradictions. Really thought about the tough questions, like if God is all knowing, why does he create people who are destined to be sent to hell. Why are babies created to starve to death? Why doesn't God give some tangible evidence of his existence to save millions of people, rather than making them rely on Faith, therefore sending millions to hell?

Came to the conclusion that if there is a God, he really doesn't interact with humans, there are too many denominations/religions for him to really care about us.

Realized I couldn't be an atheist, because mankind doesn't have enough evidence to disprove God (although it doesn't look good for him so far)

Became Agnostic, never been happier.

Answer 7

Raised in a catholic family, took what I was taught at face value until my early teens

Began reading and taking an interest in science

Began to critically examine what my parents taught me

Realised the appauling lack of evidence for any of it, and recognised the harm it did to the human psyche

abandoned religion alltogether

Attained a happier and mentally healthier life

Answer 8

Really don't understand what you're asking. But I'm growing spiritually by staying in communion with God. Through His Word and by prayer. Not the practiced, cliched prayers, but the fervent prayers that you feel in your spirit. The prayers that decrease the flesh and increase the spirit. You grow daily in God, that's why He's the bread of life

Answer 9

My true spiritual growth came when I left religion. Religion left me with no personal choice. I definitely believe in God, but I don't believe in man's interpretation of the bible and God.

I'm sure some find this offensive, but I'm not being judged by you--but by God!

Answer 10

1) Raised by Christian parents and going to church every week.
2) Felt guilty that I wasn't "good enough" for God becuase I don't pray enough and I made mistakes growing up.
3) Went to college found Christian friends who helped me grow spiritually.
4) Learned to accept God's grace and to know that I will never be "good enough".
5) I am now working on walking with God and being a leader and mentor for young Christians.

Answer 11

The most fundamental positive shift in my spiritual life is this: when I started my spiritual journey, I was looking for the "one true way" that was going to tell me how it all was. Now I look for truth within myself instead of searching for someone else's opinion to take as my own.