Fruit – Sermon Illustration Ideas

Fruit Producing Branches

Branch, Community, Fruit, isolation, Jesus

Followers of Jesus need to be connected to the vine, but not in singularity. To bear fruit, the fruit-producing branches need other fruit-producing branches….

Think like a Farmer for Faithfulness

Faith, Faithfulness, Fruit, Parables, Spiritual Growth

The challenge of waiting for God in our lives means that we have to wait until he is finished to see what has grown…

Branches

Bear Fruit, Dependence On God, Fruit, Growth

John 15 is a continuation of Jesus’s “I am” statements from John chapter 14. Jesus is making a connection between the one true God…

Fruit Trees

Bear Fruit, Consistency, Fruit, Witness, Words

James refers to different types of trees or plants producing fruit different from that which it was designed to bear. He implies that it…

Rootstock

Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Growing, Spiritual Growth

When growing apple trees, farmers can’t simply drop a seed in the ground and expect to grow a tree identical to the parent; this…

The Product Of Struggle

Fruit, Purpose, Struggles, Suffering

Wine makers state that the best wines come from grapes that struggle and experience stress. “If you take a grapevine and make its physical…

Inside Out

Change, Fruit, Sanctification, The Heart, Transformation

Everyone knows that you don’t eat bananas until they turn yellow. The internal transformation of the fruit inside the peel is what causes the…

A Tale of Two Trees

Fruit, Jesus' Teaching, Matthew, Parable, The Gospels

In the Bible, Jesus warns about false prophets who look like good guys but really are bad news (Matthew 7:15). He uses the illustration…

Changing The Fruit

Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Sin, Tempation, The Heart, The Spirit

You can’t change an apple tree into a banana tree by plucking all the apples off, and hoping bananas grow instead. To replace the…

False Advertising

Authenticity, Christian Life, Christians, Faith, Fruit, genuine, Healthy, Honesty, Hypocracy, Lukewarm

“Recently I saw a bag of potato chips with a bold declaration splashed across the front: ‘Zero grams of trans fat.’ I was glad…

Fruitful Discipleship

Authority, Authority of Jesus, Bear Fruit, Disciples, Discipleship, Fruit, Fruitful Discipleship, Proof of Purchase, Receipt

Have you ever tried to return something to the store without a receipt? It can sometimes be a hassle, because your receipt is the…

Recognition

1 Corinthians 11:1-2, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Character, Christ's Example, Christian Life, Christlikeness, Ephesians 5:1, Faith, Fruit, Galatians 2:20, Identity, Recognition, Relationship with God, Romans 12:1-2, Romans 8:29

Do you have facial recognition on your phone? This technology allows you to unlock your phone based on the particulars of your face, in…

Spiritual Cultivation

1 Corinthians 3:7, Effort, Ephesians 3:17, Faith, Farming, Fruit, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23, Galatians 6:9, Gardening, God's Work, Grace, John 15:5, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 2:13, Psalm 1:1-3, Reaping, Sanctification, Sowing, Spiritual Growth

There’s one type of image that pops up in Scripture repeatedly when describing the growth of Christians—farming or gardening. Perhaps we should think of…