Reflections
Fruitfulness is an image of overflowing abundance growing out of generosity – a generosity of heart as well as possessions. It is a community forming itself around Jesus, refusing to let enemies be enemies and debtors be debtors.
— Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat
- Flourishing: bearing fruits
- “When you don’t have it, you wonder if you will ever have it; when you have it, you wonder if it will last”
- Is it possible to live with a sense of hope flourishing without losing it?
- 3 things we need to do
- We need to recognize our own stories in the bigger context
- Fruits at cosmic level, our stories in the bigger picture of what God is doing
- Too often we live like we are center of the universe
- Look around you (v6), there is something bigger happening
- We need to connect to God
- What do you connect to help you flourish? What drives you?
- “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” — C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
- We need to engage God’s story
- We need to recognize our own stories in the bigger context
