The Intentional Year | Cultivating Fruitfulness

Galatians 5:22–25 with Nathan Caddell. A new year often comes with big goals and quiet pressure. Do more. Fix more. Become a better version of yourself. Before long, life starts to feel like a scoreboard, ahead or behind, winning or failing, productive or disappointing. And for many of us, faith becomes one more place to perform.In this message kicking off our series The Intentional Year, Nathan explores a different way to begin 2026. Through Paul’s letter to the Galatians and Jesus’ words in John 15, we look at the difference between achievement and fruit, performance and formation, striving and abiding. Instead of treating spiritual growth like a to-do list, Paul describes “the fruit of the Spirit”, the kind of character that grows when our lives are shaped by God’s presence rather than pressure.If you feel tired, driven, or stuck on a treadmill of never enough, this teaching is an invitation to step off the scorecard and stay connected to the true source of life. Not to do more for Jesus, but to be with Jesus, and let a slower, deeper kind of change take root.