Pastor Matt (March Family Talk)
March 8, 2011
Dear Church Family,
In youth group, we’ve been talking about the Holy Spirit. I love Paul’s writing in Galatians 5 about the fruit of the Spirit. He writes that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. I want you to think about trees for a minute. How would a typical person identify different types of fruit trees? By the fruit they produce, of course!
Who or what is the guiding force in your life? If you want to know the answer to this question, look at the type of life you are living. If we are truly being filled with the Holy Spirit and following Jesus with all our being, we should be producing the fruit that Paul mentions in Galatians. My encouragement to myself and to each of you is to daily
be aware of God’s presence in our lives through the Holy Spirit and to let that Spirit produce godly fruit in us. I pray that you will join me
in taking a close look at your life to see if the type of fruit you produce matches the type of “tree” you want to be. Let’s pray that God continues to grow us into a church that consistently produces good fruit.
In Christ,
Pastor Matt
