Whats The Fruit

So - Whats The Fruit Of The Apple Tree?
pause for thought
I was at a get together recently and a friend of mine called diane said that she felt God was asking her to not measure herself or where she invests in terms of FRUIT, but instead in terms on reproduction. We can, and do, often measure our 'fixed point of reference activities' in terms of their fruit. I know a great many churches who have 'GROWN' numerically, and some not just by ones and two's. They have seen some very broken people come to a place of living 'fruitfully'. There are often events and initiatives where we can say there either was or was not fruit.
However - measuring something in terms of its fruitfulness may not be how Christ would measure it, particularly in a church climate of ADDITION instead of MULTIPLICATION.
So............ this wonderful lady is looking to her home, and her children, and so investing in them that they become reproducers just as she is a reproducer. You see - we can have fruit, and not fulfill what God is asking of us. I felt it was an important point of reference - we oh so often measure by fruit - after all - it says things will be 'known' by their fruit............... but what if fruit is not the end result?
oh the answer..................... the fruit of an apple tree.................. is another apple tree !!!!
The fact that the fruit is good and edible is neither here nor there, the purpose of the fruit is to sustain the seed as it falls to the ground and enables that seed to grow another tree.
Interesting Eh?