Pastor Gail Whitcome Linstrom – “Bearing Kingdom Fruit While Abiding in Love” – Verdugo Community Church May 5, 2024

Pastor Gail in her sermon, “Bearing Kingdom Fruit While Abiding in Love” continues her exposition of Jesus’s Farewell Address in John 15, where Jesus tells his followers that to remain in him and bear fruit, we must love each other. Jesus chooses each of us to be in a loving relationship with him as a friend, and to expand that love to the others we encounter. God seeks each person through what John Wesley called “prevenient grace,” and God wants us to be the instruments through which is shown. Thus each act of kindness, compassion, and sacrifice we do for others as a result of this love shows that we are abiding in Jesus, and brings more people into the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.

 

Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.

 

Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.

 

Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.

Sermon copyright 2024 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.