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Matt Chandler Thinks We’ve Made Spiritual Growth Way Too Complicated

Matt Chandler Thinks We’ve Made Spiritual Growth Way Too Complicated

Monday, May 4, 2026
Matt Chandler has spent nearly 25 years pastoring the same church, long enough to watch college students become parents, older adults enter the final stretch of life and people who once seemed spiritually unshakable get leveled by ordinary human pain. So when he talks about spiritual growth, he isn’t interested in the polished version. The…