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How Kind Are You, Really?

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How Kind Are You, Really?

Kindness. It is the “quality, or state, of being gentle and considerate”, but we live in a world where “being gentle and considerate” seems to be out of the ordinary. We don’t want to be kind enough to let others move in front of us in traffic, we rudely push around others in the grocery store because they’re moving too slow, and we rip each other to shreds on social media. Being kind seems to be the one Fruit of the Spirit that all of us need, but not many of us want to employ. 

Longsuffering: Growing Through Struggle

Longsuffering: Growing Through Struggle

Longsuffering is a Fruit of the Spirit many of us want to avoid. Quite honestly, who really wants to endure the difficulties of life like losing a loved one, being downsized, experiencing a health scare, being evicted, or not being able to make ends meet? Not me. But God uses seasons of longsuffering to build our patience, faith, and trust in Him. He also uses those trials to reveal Himself to us in miraculous ways.

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"Living the Fruit of the Spirit" Summer Series

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"Living the Fruit of the Spirit" Summer Series

The Apostle Paul addressed Spirit versus fleshly living in a letter to the Galatians. In his epistle, he explains that the Spirit and the flesh are “in conflict” with one another (Galatians 5:17), and encourages the people of Galatia to deny the flesh by “liv[ing] by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16).