If you’ve been following this series, you already know my satire: Because nothing says “mature discipleship” like duct-taped joy and plastic patience zip-tied to dead bark. Blog #5 (“Stop Stapling Fruit to a Dead Tree”) was about values—the underground decisions that quietly determine what a church (and a Christian) will actually do when nobody is watching. This blog (#6) is the sequel: not “What do the roots believe?” but “What do the roots absorb?” Because healthy roots are