Yesterday at church was a great day!! My church is catching a vision for discipleship.  The sermons yesterday were very convicting. 

Jesus commands us to go into the world and preach the gospel.  We are to teach them, baptize them, and teach them to observe the Word of God.  We have so many excuses why we don't do this. I know because I've had my share.  But this is a command from my Lord.  When I am not doing this, I am disobedient and I am SINNING.  Wow, that is a hard thing to swallow.

I have had the privilege of leading a few people to the Lord.  To me that is very sad.  I have been saved for 25 years and I can count on one hand the number of people I have helped to lead to the Lord.  I'm not obeying what the Bible clearly tells me to do.  I am an ineffective Christian.  My heart fills with shame at how I fail my Lord.

I loved the mental pictures that was presented in the services yesterday.  I think I am a visual learner and these really gave me something to chew on.

All through the Bible we are told to bear fruit.  We are to be reproducing ourselves.  Now I have to admit.  I have been a vegetable farmer.  I have put my 3 or 4 carrots in the ground.  They won't do anything.  They just grow fat right where you put them.  I need to be a fruit farmer.  Fruit has the seed in itself.  The fruit will reproduce itself.  The seed can even be carried on the wind to germinate and grow miles from the mothering plant.  I have no fruits.  I'm not even sure where my vegetables are anymore.  I want fruit. 

 Another picture that was presented was about the fig tree that Jesus cursed.  He cursed it because it had no fruit.  It probably had very pretty leaves and was a nice looking tree.  But it didn't have fruit.  It wasn't good for anything but looking at and maybe some shade. 

 The Lord was really speaking to me yesterday.  He has been saying this same message to me through the years, over and over again.  When will I learn?  When will I be obedient and do what he says?  When will I start bearing fruit.  I don't want to be a big fat vegetable.  I want to be a fruit.