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God’s Means of Growth: The Bible
*1 Peter 2:2   Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation…
–“crave” = “long for, desire; perhaps yearn over (James 4.5)” Barclay-Neuman Greek-English Dictionary έπιποθέω #2480
*Mark 4:20   “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop-- thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.”
–Obedience to the Word of God determines spiritual productivity.