If you look around at churches today, you may see beautiful buildings, uplifting choirs, choreographed programs... impressive, but it's all just a show if God is nowhere to be found in it. Like a fig tree with gorgeous green leaves and no fruit, a church becomes dead religion if the spirit is absent from it. The Word is vital to growing that fruit. In learning about the character of God, believers are nurtured to be disciples, living out a picture of Jesus for the world around. A tree that bears fruit draws in the hungry, but a fruitless tree is no good to anyone.