For clarity sake, let's look at my life before 22 in hopes of articulating my point better
1. I was a habitual liar & felt a strong yearning to stop and do what pleased the Lord, so I stopped.
2. I was a brute who liked fighting
3. Regarding communion. I had a peace that came over me not to ask to take it anymore...
Those were the initial fruits. I was never discipled. My dad was an atheist and mom was a believer. I had 4 brothers...
I was exposed to pornography at 12. I didn't know any better, but intrinsically I knew that there...
There were small signs of fruit where I helped others or picketed abortion clinics with my mom for a couple of years. We watched many women turn away from killing their child.
The Lord reached out to me twice, once through navigators and once through Cru. I didn't go. By my last year I started to see how these things that I thought would satisfy me in fact did not.
You see, believers enticed into sin experience have a season of...
Imagine how things would have been if someone in my church given our familial circumstances chose to disciple me at 10? No one did.
I remember as a 22 year old saying, "I would-
For 19 years there was no one.
My whole point was to say that I think some Christians have unhealthy expectations on fruit bearing.
Kanye West may indeed be regenerate, but some of you expect him to change as fast as the Apostle Paul.
Maybe we should be actively looking to disciple those in our churches who are...
In terms of Kanye, some of the fruit born is that he has stopped his foul language, had Adam Tyson review every song on his album to make sure they were biblically
This is all I am saying.