6 Thoughts about the Ideal Fruit
Yesterday I posted about Sunday Morning @ Fellowship, and shared about the chipmunk that decided to join us. Today I wanted to share a few thoughts I wanted to write down concerning my message that day:
1. Any group (family, church, organization, country, etc…) is based on an ideal. (i.e.freedom, love, justice, peace, etc…)
2. That ideal is propagated by a core group of people who sacrifice for that ideal.
3. Those who sacrifice are followed by a larger group of people who give valuable service.
4. Eventually that group reaps the fruit of their efforts.
5. The fruit and the ideal should be the same thing. Far too often in our culture, the fruit is comfort, which is typically not the ideal.
6. Fruit over time, goes bad; and so we need new fruit, which means new sacrifice.
Later this week, I’ll give examples for each of these 6 progressive thoughts.
Would you add to or disagree with this list?
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New sacrifice? Interesting. But would new sacrifice be
more useful if there was a refreshing of the ideal?
Not saying there should be a new ideal – just a
refreshing of it. Maybe it should be retold, or told
in a different way.
A great thought Steve! I think people would more apt to sacrifice in new ways for a creatively communicated renewal of the original idea.
Somewhere in scripture, they talk about how you get the sort of fruit that you planted as a seed. We don’t get apple trees from pear seeds, or orange trees from rose bushes.
I was kind-of reflecting on the idea that fruits go bad once plucked. But they always contain the seeds of rejuvenation. By harvesting the seeds from the apple, we plant new trees, which ultimately lead to new fruit. This is assuming we’re willing to sarcrice our time, energy, and patience by going through the work and the waiting of the new fruit.