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Growing in Grace - Wesleyan (Galatians 5:22-23)
Source: Holiness teaching81 words
Wesley taught that the Spirit's fruit grows through cooperative effort: we use the means of grace—prayer, Scripture, communion, fellowship—and the Spirit produces growth. It's not automatic but neither is it self-generated. A gardener cooperates with nature: plants, waters, tends. Fruit grows.
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