240:🎙️ Are You Bearing Fruit? The Challenge of the Barren Fig Tree

What if grace isn’t the end of the story—but an invitation to change? In this episode, Rohan Bell and Georgia Cross unpack the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree (Luke 13:6–9), exploring Jesus’ challenge to bear fruit, the cultural mindset around judgment, and what it means to live with holy urgency. With insight, humour, and pastoral wisdom, this conversation brings clarity to a confusing parable—and lands with a question only you can answer.

👀 What you’ll discover in this episode...

✅ 🌳 Why Jesus may have left the parable’s ending open

✅ ⚖️ The tension between grace and judgment

✅ 💩 How life’s "mess" can actually make you more fruitful

✅ 🔥 Why Jesus might delay judgment—but doesn’t remove the expectation

✅ 🎯 What true repentance and kingdom living look like today

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – What is the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree really about?

02:00 – Historical context: Pilate, judgment, and the Tower of Siloam

05:00 – Fruitfulness, grace, and the danger of passive Christianity

09:00 – Open-ended parable: What kind of tree are you?

14:00 – Manure, growth, and how challenges produce spiritual fruit

🙋‍♂️ Reflection and Application

What’s growing in the soil of your life right now? Are you letting Jesus dig deep, even if it’s messy, so that your life can bear lasting fruit?

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