{"id":2166,"date":"2026-05-24T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:32:29","slug":"maturity-matters-phil-shertzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Maturity Matters &#8211; Phil Shertzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Shertzer taught from Ephesians 4 that God&#8217;s will for every believer is spiritual maturity, which isn&#8217;t about age or time as a Christian but about how much of Jesus&#8217; nature and power is flowing through your life. We can&#8217;t reach maturity on our own; the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to each person specifically for the common good of the body, and we need each other to grow into the fullness of Christ. The path forward starts with hunger, asking God for a fresh outpouring of His Spirit and getting to know Jesus personally rather than treating the fruits and gifts as a checklist. True unity in the body isn&#8217;t everyone agreeing with each other, but everyone aligning together with God&#8217;s heart and purposes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4230\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2166-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260524.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260524.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260524.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260524.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2166-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/livinglightmc\/20260524.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20260524.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Shertzer taught from Ephesians 4 that God&#8217;s will for every believer is spiritual maturity, which isn&#8217;t about age or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermons","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/livinglightmc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-design-1.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglightmc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}