What characteristics define each stage of our spiritual growth? How do we move from spiritual infancy to become children, young men and women, as well as fathers and mothers in the faith? Why is this even important? Spiritual ages and stages are not defined by our physical age, nor by the length of time we walk with the Lord, but with clear indicators given to us by the John in the letters he writes as an older man encouraging us to grow and be strengthened in the Lord.