With warm smiles and hearty singing, Copper Hill worships together.
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Worship service isn’t just about the liturgy and the sermon. The atmosphere of the congregation plays a huge part. Do people greet each other with a smile and conversation? Are folks attentive and participating in the service? Does the worship leader seek to make the service interactive? This past Sunday was another poster day at Copper Hill as an observer would have answered all three of those questions affirmatively. Multiple generations were participating too.
Pastor Kelvin’s message reminded us that spiritual growth is as natural to Christians as physical growth is to a child. However, this kind of growth happens best through our interactions with others in the family of God. Paul lists four areas for spiritual growth all of which are relational in nature.
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2
He also tells us that one means of spiritual growth is the use of our gifts. Christians grow as pastors and teachers, for example, exercise their gifts. And just as Jesus sent the disciples out two by two to learn ministry, so we advance by using our own gifts, whatever they are, alongside those of others. In these ways the body of Christ works together to bring us all toward spiritual maturity. Paul concluded this way.
Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:15-16