2 Peter 1:3-11
We use this image, called 3 Trees, to represent how real growth and change happens. We can't just decide to change and automatically jump from a thorn-producing tree to a fruit-bearing tree. Instead, we have to trace our thoughts and behaviors down to their roots and bring them in need, confession and repentance to the Cross. When we allow Jesus' truth, love, and grace to change the deep, unreached areas of our hearts, something radically different comes out of us. God is at work, in the heat (situations of life) and wants to reveal the roots of our thorn ridden responses, not to shame us, but to set us free.
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
1. What is one area of thorns you'd like to see become fruit?
2. What is underneath those thorns? What are you believing, desiring, hoping in, or trusting?
3. What gospel truth if deeply believed and sensed would lead to fruit?
January 10, 2021 - Steve Hart