Naked Fruit: Love & Joy (Love the Saints. Love ALL the saints.)

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Read Colossians 1:1-14 here. 

It’s the craziest thing, really—God doesn’t actually need us to do his work; God is perfectly capable of doing all that needs to be done in our world … but He chooses to use us: to share the fruit of love and joy through us.

And all we have to do to be part of God’s transformation of our world is to be in and to stay in relationship with God—to hang on to the vine for dear life by worshiping and praying and studying and serving—joyfully working out our salvation in fear and trembling, as Philippians says. Knowing God and loving God.

When we are able to do that—as individuals and as a church—the fruit of the Spirit WILL grow, quietly but surely, among us. Not because of anything we did … but because it is God who will make it grow.