Spiritual growth can be a nebulous term that is thrown around in sermons or Bible studies. In its simplest terms, spiritual growth is the process of becoming more like Jesus. That’s what we’re growing toward, and most often, it’s a slow process. Our spiritual growth doesn’t just happen while we sleep and go about our busy, distracted lives, though. It takes some intentional effort on our part.

As Christians, our desire is to know and love God. But how? Author Jen Wilkin has said, “The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.” There are two obvious ways for us to know God: read his word (listen) and pray (talk). Even when we agree with the importance of reading God’s word and spending time in prayer, in an age of constant distraction, it is unlikely that we will consistently do those things without making them an intentional priority.