“The Scriptures witness to the fact again and again that full spiritual maturity is not reached by the initial act of turning to God, but continues after the believer’s conversion/justification. This process (of spiritual growth) towards Christian maturity has been referred to under different labels - usually sanctification, deification, and being conformed to the divine image - and the current chapter has examined the main biblical paradigms of spiritual formation with a view of their relationship to the fruit of the Spirit.


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