What would you consider to be the greatest gap in terms of spiritual formation for your church?

For your pastors? For church leaders? For youths?

This will be mostly a reiteration of something I have shared earlier.

I consider the greatest gap in terms of spiritual formation for my church to be our understanding of what it means to be the church and what it means to be followers of Jesus in the world.

Most, if not all, of the Christians in my local church see the church as a place to express their spirituality and a place to express their devotion towards God. In other words, every good Christian goes to church, attends the services, the cell groups, the bible studies, and the family camps. The even better Christians attend prayer meetings and the extra conferences and seminars organised by the church.

Beyond that, there is little or no understanding of how the church has been given the mysteries of God that she may cause each individual to further grow “into Christ”.

There is little or no understanding of what it means to be the people of God beyond all our programmes and activities; we attend these things because we genuinely want to be “good Christians”, not because we see how they help us grow “into Christ” (nor do these things necessarily help us attain that goal, in the first place!) But we just keep cooperating anyway, because “good Christians” do not question.