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How God Shapes People for Effective Life and Ministry

Every follower of Christ begins the same way—immature but full of potential. Building Character and Skill explores how God transforms believers from where they start into people who reflect His character and accomplish His work with wisdom and effectiveness.

You’ll learn to:

• Understand where spiritual growth begins and how God’s grace meets us at the starting point of change.

• Grasp the nature of the change process—how transformation unfolds over time through truth, practice, and testing.

• Recognize the nature of Christian maturity, defined not by knowledge alone but by Christlike character and fruitful living.

• Discover God’s training program—His intentional process of shaping hearts, attitudes, and abilities for ministry.

• Trace the character development sequence, seeing how growth builds from faith to perseverance to love.

• Understand the role of testing, how God uses life’s challenges to refine maturity and prove faith genuine.

• Hold fast to the guarantees of fruitfulness, the promises God gives to those who endure His training with humility and faith.

Includes a zip file containing over 12 hours of the conference audio (MP3 format), and the conference workbook (PDF format). From the 2004 How Church Works Conference.