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October
2007
October
2007
What’s the Game Plan for Fellowship
7:16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17 So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. 7:18 A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 7:20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Key Point: We need the fellowship of other Christians to grow the way God intended and gifted usHarvest Season: What is God the “farmer” doing in your life?
Fruit of Fellowship: Which Spirit fruit would you seek?
“Grape Expectations” principle: pain is part of growth
Discipline Pruning
Why? _______________
What? _______________
Response? _______________
The “Mirror” of a Small Group for fellowship
Washing feet = ________________________
Patience = PBPWMGITWMY
Where is God pruning or disciplining you/us?
15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 15:2 Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3 You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 15:6 If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. 15:7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 15:8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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