God designed you to grow. And, when you’re growing like you should, you’ll be producing seeds that can be planted in other people that will affect the way they see and interact with and think about the world around them. The question is: Are these Gospel seeds, or are they seeds for something less savory. As a community, God designed us to be a place where people grow in Christ. Read on to see what this means for us, what it can mean for you, and what we should to about it.
Planting Seeds
I don’t have any corn growing in my front yard. You can drive by my house any day of the week, any time of the day, and you won’t ever see any there. It’s the weirdest thing. It just isn’t there. I like corn. I love eating it. I love it when we buy a whole bunch at the store, strip it off the cob, freeze it, and pull it out months later to enjoy. Lisa is a wizard with those goodie freezer bags. But there just isn’t any in my front yard. There aren’t any green beans either. That’s really too bad too, because it’s the one vegetable we’ve managed to be able to get all three boys to eat without much in the way of complaint. I can’t tell you how convenient it would be to simply go out the front door and pick what we need rather than having to go to the store all the time for them. Alas, though, the yard is bereft of beans. And greens. Now, I’m not much of one for greens myself, but Lisa likes cabbage. You won’t find the first leaf of it in my front yard.
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