A 3rd Mark of Spiritual Maturity is A Heightened Sense of Our Connection To The Body of Christ (v.12, 16) – spiritual maturity and progress in the Christian life doesn’t happen in isolation from other believers… It begins with an awareness that we’re connected to one another (in a real, vital sense) as members together of the ‘body of Christ.’
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
