When you think about how one grows in their faith, what actions come to your mind? I believe the typical response includes the obvious things like reading your Bible, participating in worship services and praying regularly to God. These are given practices of people of faith the world over, and they are important elements of practicing our faith.
However, sometimes, because of their frequency or their common acceptance within communities of faith, it can become easy to take these practices for granted. They can fall into actions we do repetitively, but not intentionally. We can go through the motions, allowing our familiarity with them to lead to complacency in the transformation that should result in our living.
In pursuing a deeper faith, each of us has to come to grips with an ongoing