Many Churchgoers, Pastors Struggle to Define Spiritual Maturity

By Jennifer Riley
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, May. 11 2009

A new Barna survey revealed on Monday that half of churchgoers cannot describe how their church defines a "healthy, spiritually mature follower of Jesus."

Even among born again Christians – a smaller subset group whose members say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as their savior and confessed their sin – a significant portion was unable to say how their church defines spiritual maturity. Two out of five born again Christians could not answer the open-ended survey question. the rest

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