The Fruitful Life

by Jerry Bridges

  • Year 2006
  • Type Book
  • Genre spiritual formation
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For Christians who want a practical study of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5; not for readers wanting an exegetical commentary on Galatians.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
1 of 5 marginal
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

A study (2006) of the nine fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 and how they grow from a focus on God.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You (NavPress, 2006) examines the nine qualities Paul lists as the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23. Bridges argues that cultivating them depends on a twofold focus, God-centredness and God-likeness, and aims to show how they are practised in everyday life. He described it as covering what he had forgotten, or learned since, writing The Pursuit of Holiness, and one retailer notes that it is derived from The Practice of Godliness (1983). NavPress keeps it in print.

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Catalog IDW.H70A82.Q

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