This comes from Ephesians 3:14-19 where
Paul prays, “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and
to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”

While many people believe in Jesus as their Savior, they have found that their lives are not producing good fruit. Only when we are rooted and grounded in His love can we truly come into His fullness in us, which is maturity. The logo shows the plant person rooted in the ground which is the foundation.
Being a Disciple necessitates each person being able to “know the love if Christ which surpasses knowledge.” We help people move from a head
knowledge of the love of God to a real heart experience of His love. What people really believe, they believe in their hearts.

When a person is truly able to love and accept themselves as God does, they "come alive”. They begin drinking of the Living Water and receiving
light from the Son. This is Christ-Life, as opposed to self-life which is being the source of your life or trying to get life from other people. When He is truly our life, we are full of Him and reach maturity. Then we are able to bear fruit which is God's plan for each
one of us. Note the following Scriptures;

This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. - John 15:8

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you
ask in my name. - John 15:16

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. - John 15:5

“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "So then, you will know them by their fruits. - Matthew 7:19-20

What is the fruit we are to bear?

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” - Galatians 2:22

“for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth.” - Ephesians 5:9

“And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. - James 3:18

The new Christ-Life logo is to remind us that as we are rooted and grounded in His love and as we let His Christ-Life live through us, we will be
vibrant, fruit producing plants for His Glory and thus show ourselves to be His disciples.

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