Growing & Abounding as Individuals (TMF:2506)
Monday, December 16, 2024
Peace to Live By: Growing & Abounding as Individuals (TMF:2506) - Daniel Litton
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Notice that the character of the individual person is said to be “bearing fruit and increasing” as well. It isn’t just the message, but it is also the individual who is growing or abounding. For anyone looking at a lot of churches in our general day, it might be presumed that the mature character of the Christian is one who is good at evangelizing others, wherever that person be. That’s a common theme among evangelical circles. It’s almost as if one’s maturity is defined by how well one can share the Gospel with others. Obviously, though, if we are honest with ourselves, the true focus of Christian character development was what Paul listed elsewhere, namely the Fruit of the Spirit. That fruit that the Spirit begets in us. Each of the fruits is fused in the Gospel message. If you go through each fruit, you can see that the Gospel brings each of those out in the Christian. We start with love. God so loved us that we are given the perfect example of what love really is, versus what the world might say it is.