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The Difference between Success & Fruitfulness

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  • The Pastor's Workshop
Categories (3)
  • Current Affairs and Causes
  • Personal Development
  • Leadership
Illiustration Categories (2)
  • Background
  • Studies
Keywords (15)
  • Success
  • Climbing the Ladder of Success
  • Dedication
  • Differences
  • Fruitfulness
Scripture (6)
  • Jeremiah 17:7-8
  • Genesis 41:50-52
  • Isaiah 53:2-3
  • John 15:4-5
  • 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
Date Added
  • Mar 14, 2025

There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame.

Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, community is the…

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