1. To ABIDE is to live and enjoy a barrier-free relationship with the true Vine, Jesus Christ.

2. ABIDING SATISFACTION in God is available constantly for every branch in the Vine. To bear fruit and glorify God, every branch must be receiving this satisfaction from Jesus 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and in every circumstance of life.

3. The ABIDING Christian life is not complicated. It is as SIMPLE as the powerful, abiding presence of Jesus. In the VINE every Christian has God’s guarantee of spiritual formation, health, joy and fruit.

4. Every church can be completely healthy, bear much fruit and be a vineyard full of loving, abiding branches bearing much fruit to God’s glory.

5. There is absolutely nothing the abiding presence of Jesus in our lives cannot overcome.