Duct Taping Oranges
Nature NuggetAnalogy★★★★It’s like being an orange tree was being a Christian and being an apple tree was being a sinner. So you’re the apple tree, looking at all the orange trees, deciding to duct tape oranges to yourself. You rip all the apples off and duct tape a bunch of oranges. What do you look like now? Do you look like an orange tree? Mission accomplished.
But what happens when you just tape an orange to the side of a tree? It’s gonna rot, it’s gonna die, it’s gonna decay because it’s not connected to the source.
Baca, Anthony, “Knowing God” (AudioVerse teaching 36385).
The point
An analogy comparing being a Christian to an orange tree and a sinner to an apple tree, highlighting the futility of merely pretending to be something one is not.
Scripture
John 15:4-5Matthew 7:15-20
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Convicting
To tell aloud
about 1 min · 96 words