When the Holy Spirit is welcomed into a person’s heart things will change for the better. The presence and work of the Spirit, with a person who cooperates motivated out of love for the LORD is someone that you can spot for the ways that certain attributes are clear and growing. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control are the list the Apostle Paul gives about a life with such evidence. Today we start a series on Growing the Fruit and will consider how love is the foundation for all that God is doing in our lives. 1 John 4:7-12 will be among the scriptures leading our hearts to worship today.

A few weeks ago we considered what God did on Pentecost to help with the conversion of ordinary people to be those who did extraordinary things that changed the world. We revisit Acts chapter 2 today, going back to look at the Apostle Peter’s message and what insight we can get for how some 3,000 came to believe after he preached. What was it in that message that pointed the early church to go out and change the world by the power of the Holy Spirit?