“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature,

and in favor with God and men.”  Luke 2:52

How many hundreds of experts and expert wanna-be’s have over the decades have offered their formulas on how we can grow into better men and women? Some of their advice is quite good.  Most of it is simply rewordings and rehashes of earlier works.

Whenever I see yet another “formula” for personal and professional growth, I go back to the original and not the opinions, excerpts, or flimsy copies of it.  In the case of professional and personal growth, I automatically go back to the original formula, the one God gave us in Luke 2:52.

In one verse, Luke beautifully describes four key areas of growth, what everyone saw in the teenager, Jesus. It is a simple and powerful verse, life changing if we were to apply it.  Yet like so many other verses we hear or read, we go, “Wow – that’s good stuff – I need to do that,” then walk away and not change anything.  We all do it.  It’s human nature.

But I don’t want you to walk away from this today.  I want you to “grow up” a little bit, just as I am doing as well.

Here’s how to get started.

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