Abiding in Christ

"Remain in Me and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by iteself without staying on the vine, so you cannot without remaining in Me. I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing."
John 15:4-5


Today was day one of the phase 3 teacher training seminar. This week our focus and theme is on the fruit of the Spirit and how we has teachers are called to live by the Spirit so that we can bear fruit and to encourage our students to live in a way that bears the fruit of the Spirit. Bethany started off our training by reminding the teachers that we cannot bear fruit if we do not first abide in Christ. As everyone stood under a Mango tree we discussed how a branch cannot bear fruit on its own and how it is the roots of the tree and the tree itself that provides life for the branches so that they can produce fruit. As we root ourselves in Christ we too can bear fruit.

This week for a visual aid we are creating pictures of fruit to remind us that we ourselves desire to bear fruit. Today the teachers worked diligently on drawing mangos and writing John 15:12 to remind us to love as Christ loves.