Growing

‎Gradual growth in grace, growth in knowledge, growth in faith,

growth in love, growth in holiness,

growth in humility, growth in spiritual-mindedness

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all this I see clearly taught and urged in Scripture,

and clearly exemplified in the lives of many of God's saints.

But sudden, instantaneous leaps

from conversion to consecration

I fail to see in the Bible.

~ J.C. Ryle