Anna Baltayan

Mr. Chapman

New Testament Epistles – Period 4

5/19/11

Spiritual Maturity is when you grow in your faith as a Christian.

When a person accepts Christ as their Savior they start to grow in faith. They
have chosen to live 'in Christ'. Their Faith will start to grow from this
point on developing their Spiritual Maturity. Though we never stop growing in
this; as John the Apostle says in Philippians 3:12-14: “Not that I have
already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on
to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do
not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on
toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in
Christ Jesus"

(3/22/11) Give a personal example of someone whom you grew to love

because that person had been loving and kind to you. This was a very
challenging ‘My Best Response’ to answer because I had lots of examples to
choose from. No, I wouldn’t like to change anything for my answer. Even
though we broke up, we’re still friends and I still love him a lot. Though I
am sad we broke up I still grew to love and still do love him.

Comparing and contrasting how I understood Christianity from the

beginning of the year till now will be difficult. At the beginning of the
year, I had understood Christianity very well. I had gone to a Christian
middle school. Though, I do think that my knowledge on it has been fine-tuned
a bit more now. I’m able to better grasp the ideas of what Christians believe
in, what I believe in.

Apparently, studying the Epistles had been beneficial to us.

Honestly I don’t think so. I also don’t know have any quotations to cite
from since I had lost my notes from them. Though sure, it would be helpful if
you pursue a life in the church or a job in the m ministry it’d be very
helpful. I am not pursuing this lifestyle though, yes I will attend church
regularly but no I don’t think it’d help.
 I will tell you once more Mr. Chapman; the whole study of the
epistles will not benefit me at all! I really have better things to study that
would be more useful to me. They are the epistles, when do they really come up
in a conversation outside of school? Though yes, having the knowledge is good
in case someone does ask. Though chances of that I think are slim. So no, the
study of them was not beneficial to me at all.