More Meat? (Part 2-Check Your Fruit)

So what are we to do when people complain that the church isn’t feeding them enough? Besides making sure that they aren’t still breastfeeding from the church (see part one here), we need to remind them to check their fruit.

Scripture tells us multiple times that we can determine the extent of one’s growth by the kind of “fruit” they’re producing. For instance, Matthew 7 says that true believers will be recognized by their fruit and that many people that claim to be followers don’t really know God. If you really break it down, many “Christians” in our country don’t have any evidence of fruit. I can’t help but think that a majority of them don’t really know God at all. I don’t see a lot of Christians that can be described as full of “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Those are the “fruits” of following God, in case you’re wondering).

Why all this talk of fruit? People who complain about not being fed enough need to be concerned more about whether they are producing fruit rather than if they are getting enought meat. Let’s stop griping about how much we’re fed and start applying what we’ve already learned. It would be awesome to see people who are more concerned with meeting the needs of others than meeting their own selfish desires.