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Does being a Christian for a long time automatically make us spiritually mature?

What about knowing a lot of Scripture?

Attending church every week?

Going to Bible studies?

Listening to sermons?

Using Bible software?

Reading devotionals?

Even earning a theology degree?

Those things can all be valuable.

But Hebrews 5 gives us a sobering answer:

Time and knowledge alone do not produce spiritual maturity.

The believers addressed in Hebrews had been Christians long enough that they should have been teaching others.

Instead, they still needed someone to teach them the basics.

They had been around truth.

They had heard truth.

They had learned truth.

But something was missing.

Verse 14 tells us what it was.

The mature are those who, “because of practice,” have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

In other words:

Spiritual maturity does not come merely from knowing more. It comes as we repeatedly put God’s truth into practice.

So today we’re asking:

Are we actually growing—or are we simply accumulating more Christian information?

And what does it really take to move from spiritual infancy toward maturity?