Fruit That Will Last

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Lately, I have been reflecting on the kind of fruit that I want to see in my life and ministry. There are times when it looks like you are succeeding on the surface in church life or personally, but real success depends on how you define it. There is a deeper question we have to wrestle with beyond surface-level results… “What does real success look like?”

John 15 is an anchor text in my life. I find myself returning there over and over again. When I was reading it again recently the part that caught my attention was in verse 16. “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last…” Fruit that will last. That’s an important distinction. By qualifying the kind of fruit he is talking about Jesus is insinuating that there is also fruit that will not last.