Tuesday, October 28, 2008

John 15: fruit

I am the vine, you are the branches . . .

Where does fruit grow?  It grows on the branches.  The branch though can not produce fruit by itself.  The branch produces fruit because of the life (sap) that comes up through the tree and into the branches.  We can not produce love or other fruit of the spirit by ourselves.  The Holy spirit has deposited these things in our hearts and we must nurture those things so they can mature.

Ideas came from a letter to LHOP from Doug Stone in 2008.

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