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Summit Life with J.D. Greear

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Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you only have one tomatillo plant in a garden, it’ll never produce any fruit because it needs other plants to cross-pollinate. And Christians are kind of like tomatillo plants in that way. Healthy believers will produce the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But first, you have to be rooted in Christ, and second, you need to have community.

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0:00.0

Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

0:02.2

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

0:07.9

not just the amount of God's love, but what kind of love.

0:11.9

It was a serving, it was a self-empthing and empathizing and incarnating gap bridging love.

0:19.2

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

0:30.4

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor and Author JD Greer.

0:37.7

I'm your host Molly Vittavitch.

0:39.9

Are there any gardeners out there?

0:41.6

Did you know that if you only have one tomatillo plant in a garden,

0:44.8

it'll never produce any fruit because it needs other plants to cross pollinate.

0:49.5

And Christians are kind of like tomatillo plants in that way.

0:52.5

Healthy believers will produce the fruit of the spirit,

0:55.7

but first you have to be rooted in Christ.

0:58.2

And second you need to cross pollinate with community.

1:01.9

And where is that community usually found?

1:04.2

The local church.

1:05.5

That's our topic today on Summit Life as Pastor JD Greer continues our series called gospel.

1:11.4

To hear previous messages in this study or to learn more about Pastor JD's gospel bible study,

1:17.2

go to JD Greer.com.

1:19.4

But for now let's get started in the gospel of John.

1:22.0

I want you to get your bible if you haven't.

1:27.1

I want you to open it to John 15 if you haven't done so already.

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