What is success? Who is a successful person? My definition is that success is accomplishing something with your life that is significant. A significant accomplishment is one that changes things for the better, that meets real needs in the lives of people, that has a long term impact on those that were targeted, that makes the world better even just a little bit.
In the Bible a significant accomplishment would be called fruit. In the gospel of John Jesus talks for six chapters about how to bear much fruit. The few days before He is crucified is when these dialogs by Jesus are made to His disciples. Jesus knows He is going to die on a cross, be raised from the dead and go back to heaven with the Father. He knows that His disciples will now have to carry on building the church without Him so these chapters are full of great truth on how to bear fruit, in fact Jesus says that they will bear more fruit than He did. I have read these 6 chapters over and over again wanting to glean all that is there on how to bear more fruit than Jesus. I am now in the process of memorizing these 6 chapters so the principles will not get lost or forgotten. For the next 6 weekends I will be preaching at JBC on these chapters teaching on “how to be truly successful and accomplish incredibly significant things with our life.” Services are 7 pm on Saturday night, 9 and 11 am on Sunday morning. If you don’t go to church someplace try JBC and see what happens.