How We Grow / Summer Fruit / Troy Selley

The journey of becoming the person God created you to be is a lifelong process. The Apostle Paul describes the qualities we strive for as the “Fruit of the Spirit”: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
But have you ever been frustrated with yourself when you aren't loving, or patient, or kind when you really needed to be? Have you ever just run out of the willpower to be the way you want to be in a moment? It could be because you're skipping a crucial step - the fruit comes after a season of growing. Join us as we explore the way we can place ourselves before God so that he can transform us from the inside out.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 3:26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.