The Bible is chock full of gardening imagery. It starts in the garden of Eden for crying out loud. The "New" testament is full of great parables that include harvests and workers and such. Anyone who has even tried some gardening knows that there are weeds, weeds that need to be pulled. There is a great parable (Matthew 13:29-31) of the master of the vineyard decides to let the weeds grow with the grain and it'll be figured out in the end. It's not a very popular parable, not one I learned in Sunday school.
It ends up being all about fruit. We'll know if it's a weed or not by it's fruit. There's a groovy tune left from the Hippy Jesus movement- "and they'll know we are Christians by our love."
Or not. Seems like an awful lot of weeds in some churches.
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