You prayed for peace. You asked for joy. So why are anxiety, insecurity and the same old habits still running your life?
Galatians 5 lists nine fruits of the Spirit. Would that list describe the Christians you know, or your own life on a hard week? Pastor Steve Cioccolanti says the church keeps repenting at the fruit level, apologizing for the outburst, the relapse, the slammed door, while the root that produced it stays untouched. So it grows back.
Pastor Steve, who has sat inside celebrity churches and watched what shallow discipleship produces, traces the root through Isaiah 1, Proverbs 15 and Proverbs 22 to a place most believers never look. He explains why a psychologist reaches the soul but not the spirit, what a wrong order of spirit, soul and body does to a Christian, and where rebellion and addiction actually begin. Parents will hear one line to write down.
"We have superficial Christianity because we have superficial repentance."
He finishes with a three-step protocol for bringing the root to the cross so the fruit can finally grow. Watch it before you apologize for the same thing again.
