Robert Morris - Inside-Out Families

There are four stages to maturity related to our spiritual growth and our marital relationship.

Living inside out is living according to the character and maturity within oneself rather than living in reaction to external circumstances. To live this way, a person must first mature. The stages of maturity apply to both our spiritual growth and relationship with our spouse.

Job is an example of a man who was greater on the inside than on the outside, as shown by his response to extreme difficulty in Job 1:22: “In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.” He was mature and responded to his circumstances based out of that maturity. In contrast, we can learn from the prodigal son’s journey from immaturity to maturity as described in Luke 15.