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“Remain Connected”

John 15:1-8

In this paassage Jesus is speaking about grapevines, and he’s also speaking about discipleship. He challenges those who would follow him: “I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me, and I in them, bear much fruit.” Should you, a beloved child of God, make your home in Christ, just as he has made his home in God, you will bear fruit that is worthy of him. What God plants and tends is tremendously productive. A woman named Sarah Henrich puts it this way: “Bearing fruit does not create disciples. Bearing fruit reveals disciples.”

That people of Isra...