When Christians measure a church's "success" by numbers rather than the fruit of the Spirit, we create a culture that looks nothing like the Kingdom Jesus preached. But Scripture does not teach us that the fruit of the Spirit is satellite campuses, book sales, and market share. Scripture teaches us that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Jesus said that we identify false preachers, not by their position on obscure theological matters, but by the degree to which their lives exhibit this type [of] fruit. In other words, getting men to go to church is not the same as making disciples of Jesus, and we best not confuse the two.
-- Rachel Held Evans, "Changing the Culture that Enabled Mark Driscoll: 6 Ways Forward"
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