Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us that we should be called the children of God.

Not just the amount of God's love, but what kind of love?

It was a serving.

It was a self-emptying and empathizing and incarnating gap-ritching love.

So now the question for us becomes, does this describe our relationships to one another?

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Now for today's message, did you know that if you only have one Tomatio plant in a garden,

it'll never produce any fruit because it needs other plants to cross-pollinate? And Christians

are kind of like Tomatio plants in that way.

Healthy believers will produce the fruit of the spirit,

but first, you have to be rooted in Christ.

And second, you need to cross-pollinate in community.

And where is that community usually found?

The local church.

Today, Pastor J.D. continues our series called

gospel. Let's join him now. I want you to get your Bible if you haven't. I want you to open it to

John 15 if you haven't done so already. Let's review real quick where we have been. The very first week,

we took an overview of the chapter, and I tried to show you how the gospel changes us in a way

like nothing else can. Religion can tell us what to do, but religion cannot give us either the

desire or the power to do it. The gospel changes us not by changing

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