In the year 2000, the famous healing evangelist Reinhard Bonkke came to Lagos, Nigeria, to hold a five-day crusade and in one of the nights of the crusade, an estimated one million people gave their lives to Christ. For a city of 17 million people (meaning 1 out of 17 was won for Christ that day), such a landslide of soul-winning happening in one night should by now (over a decade later) have translated into a phenomenal change with great impact on the city and nation – considering the ideals and power that Christianity boasts of. And with thousands of smaller church gatherings offering altar calls week in week out since then, Lagos and Nigeria should have been much more radically influenced by the message of the Gospel. To the United States, the nation with arguably the highest number (over 100 million) of self-identified Christians in the world, a 2011 Maximum Faith research by George Barna revealed that a relatively small proportion of this huge number of individuals stick with the process of spiritual growth long enough to become the mature Christ-followers and world changers that they are meant to be. While more than three out of four self-identified Christians (78%) strongly agreed that spirituality is very important to them, only less than one out of every five self-identified Christians (18%) claims to be totally committed to investing in their own spiritual development, and less than four (22%) claims to be dependent on God.

1. Spiritual growth is not for baby Christians alone. The quartet of care, orientation, leading and launch must be ongoing and
running in the background for every Christian with further oversight from pastors and spiritual leaders to ensure
development and growth in all ramifications and dimensions: inward, outward, upward, downward and onward.
The Greatest Problem of the Church is Lack of Spiritual Growth
– Reverend George Adegboye
HAVE THEIR CONSCIENCE
JUDGE A SIN ACT i.e.
Genuinely get pricked by
their conscience when they
fall into a sin act after
conversion.
1 OUT OF 10 CONVERTS
ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN
SERVICE/FELLOWSHIP i.e.
have a time of spiritual
reflection, fast for kingdom
purposes or share their faith
with an unbeliever in a week
period.
1 OUT OF 8 CONVERTS
3 OUT OF 100
CONVERTS
GET BUILT TO A POINT OF
MINISTERING TO OTHERS
BY THEIR GIFT AND CALLING
i.e. devote themselves to
God’s will for their lives and
commit to serve Him and
others.
100
There are so many spiritual
babies in and around church
that, if not for lack of
growth, should have given
birth to many more babies
from the world.
BABIES DON’T
MAKE BABIES
If Christian conversion has not yielded much, it is simply because the young believer doesn’t get
enough care for belonging, orientation for mind renewal, leading by example for emulation and
launch for practice. In one of these at least, every church or denomination that finds it difficult
having its spiritual babies become mature Christians is failing.
SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS
NOT AN INSTANT
HAPPENING, IT IS A
CONTINUAL PROCESS
POSITIVE DOMINANT FEELINGS
ARE LEFT UN-NURTURED
WHILE NEGATIVE FEELINGS ARE
LEFT UNCHECKED AND
UNINFLUENCED BY THE WORD.
“Praise God I am saved” “I
am a brand new man” “I
won’t go to hell again” “The
Struggle is over” etc.
Need to be nurtured with
revelation knowledge of
God’s Word.
"Here we go now, this
Christian journey” “What do
I need to start doing now?”
“I will have to behave more
carefully” etc.
Need to be solved in the young
believer’s mind.
“Is this all to being a Christian?”
“A part of me still wants to sin?”
“How will I get those guys off my
back?” etc.
Need to be addressed, edged
out by absolute truth.
THIS INFOGRAPHIC IS AN APPETIZER FOR THE BOOK I’M BORN AGAIN, WHAT NEXT, 5 BASIC
THINGS TO KEEP DOING TO GROW SPIRITUALLY. FOR BOTH YOUNG AND MATURE
@mdomisore