John 15:1–11
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The modern evangelical church is obsessed with techniques, programs, and metrics. We treat the Christian life like an Ikea assembly project. If we just follow the instructions, tighten the right bolts, and use the provided Allen wrench, we will produce a respectable Christian life that we can then present to God for His approval. But the Lord Jesus Christ, on the night before He was betrayed, did not give His disciples a schematic or a flowchart. He gave them an agricultural metaphor, a living and organic reality that is so profound it should stop all our frantic program-building in its tracks. The Christian life is not a machine we build; it is a branch that is alive. It is not about what we do for God, but about what God does in us. It is not about our activity, but about our abiding.