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Every one of us is planted somewhere. The question is whether we're sending roots down deep, or just staying green on the surface while something underneath stays stunted. Thrive exists to get down into that soil with you, into the beliefs and wounds and patterns that are actually shaping your growth, so what grows up out of you is strong enough to bear real fruit.
Fertilizer for your soul. That's Thrive.
In Luke chapter thirteen, Jesus tells a story about a fig tree that hadn't produced fruit in three years. The owner wanted it cut down. But the keeper said, wait, let me dig around it and fertilize it first, and give it one more season. If it bears fruit, good. If not, then we'll talk about cutting it down.
That keeper's instinct is exactly what Thrive is for the church. Every ministry is trying to produce real fruit, men's ministry, ladies ministry, young adults, seniors, and every ministry eventually runs into people who look barren on the outside. The temptation is always to write them off. But the better instinct, the keeper's instinct, is to get down into the soil and find out what's actually going on at the root.
That's Thrive's function inside any of these ministries. It's not a replacement for what you're already doing, it's the fertilizer underneath it. It doesn't matter what group someone belongs to or what circle they're walking through, fertilizing the soil is what makes fruit possible in the first place.