Embracing Gentleness: Strength Under Control in Christ
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "You and I, we are on the mission field every single day of our lives. You don't need to go to Rwanda or El Salvador. You don't need to go to Newark to be a missionary. All you need to do to be a missionary for Jesus is go to work tomorrow, go to school. That's it. You just got to live your life, and you are a missionary. You just need to go to work, go to school, engage with other people. You need to represent the character of Jesus to the people in your life by living out the character of Jesus in your relationships." [28:56]
2. "We weren't created or called to win, right? That's not what this life is about. We weren't created to win. We weren't created to win. That's not what this life is all about. That's not why we're here. That's not what our purpose is. We're not called to win. You are called to love and serve others with dignity, treating them as ourselves, right? With humility, elevating them up to the position of where we feel like we are at." [26:05]
3. "Our lives on this earth, guys, they are so short. With respect to all of eternity, for all of eternity, that's still to happen. Our lives, your life, my life, our lives are so short on this earth relative to eternity. So, does it really matter how much money you make, how much success that you have, how high you've worked your way up the corporate ladder? Does it even matter how much money you retire with, or die with, right? Does it matter how much you make, if it meant that you were unloving and kind to get it, right?" [27:34]
4. "You are to leverage gentleness in your life as a gift from God himself. You are to yield all of that to God Almighty. You are to leverage all of that as a gift from God and yield it to him with humility and submission to his perfect will over your life. Like that's the point. That's what's wrapped up in this word protase, right? It's not gentleness as in you are weak. It's you are strong, but you are gentle with it and how you treat and how you approach others." [11:36]
5. "We are to love God and love our neighbors, to love God and to love people, right? To love God and to love others, right? We are to serve one another humbly in love. He says this right earlier in the chapter. And remember when John says, we've talked about this before, he says, whoever does not love does not know God because God is love. Translation, if you aren't loving God, you're not loving God. If you aren't loving God, you're not loving others." [08:35]
### Quotes for Members
1. "How we engage others is what we do. So the tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. What matters most? Are we lovingly strong or are we recklessly weak? Are we patient and kind as we deal with others or are we combative with others? Are we tearing them down as we have conflict with each other? Here's the thing, conflict, you know this, I know this, conflict is going to happen. We are humans, we are imperfect, and we're dealing with other humans who are also, as it turns out, we're not perfect." [21:52](
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2. "Are you willing to take a patient approach? Are you willing to gently, even lovingly, guide your employee, guide your coworker, guide the other person in your office toward the solution that you want, even as you correct them? Are you willing to engage with them in a loving, healthy matter, right? To engage them in that way, even when there's conflict, even when you need them to change, are you willing to engage them? In a loving, kind, gentle manner?" [23:09](
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3. "When you go to work, instead of losing your cool, when somebody lets you down, somebody makes a mistake. How can you reshape your response to come with them humbly and lovingly, to guide them toward correction with a tongue that gives life to them the way that Jesus did with Peter and the way that he does with you? What can that look like in your work life as you go back to work? What about in your families, right? With your spouse, with your best friend, or with a family member? When you get into a fight, and you have some sort of disagreement, some sort of conflict, how can you reshape your posture with them to humbly come before them, to elevate them, even in the midst of conflict, to elevate them, to show them that they matter?" [30:20](
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4. "Living a life of gentleness is actually imperative to living out our calling to represent Jesus, because it's really core to who Jesus is. Jesus is gentle with us. Jesus is gentle with us. And I'll tell you a story here from the Bible that kind of, I think, defines it. It helps us see, you know, what Jesus means here. And we're going to look at this story about when Jesus meets up with his disciples after his death and after his resurrection. They all meet on the beach, right? The shore of Galilee. And that's where he kind of engages with them." [16:09](
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5. "Jesus calmly and lovingly restores Peter back into ministry, right? And I got to believe that at least on Peter's side of things, there had to be some tension there. There had to be some level of, I don't know, anxiety, right? He had just abandoned Jesus in his biggest time of need. moment of need, when he's been arrested, he's being confronted, he's actually starting to get beaten up a little bit, right? In that time of need, Peter denies even knowing that they know each other, right? He denies knowing him. And so right now, Peter's probably feeling some tension. And in this moment now, when they're regathered for what we understand to be the first time, we have no other indication that they had spoken or seen each other. In that moment, Jesus met Peter right there and lovingly restored him to ministry." [20:26](
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1. "You and I, we are on the mission field every single day of our lives. You don't need to go to Rwanda or El Salvador. You don't need to go to Newark to be a missionary. All you need to do to be a missionary for Jesus is go to work tomorrow, go to school. That's it. You just got to live your life, and you are a missionary. You just need to go to work, go to school, engage with other people. You need to represent the character of Jesus to the people in your life by living out the character of Jesus in your relationships." [28:56]
2. "We weren't created or called to win, right? That's not what this life is about. We weren't created to win. We weren't created to win. That's not what this life is all about. That's not why we're here. That's not what our purpose is. We're not called to win. You are called to love and serve others with dignity, treating them as ourselves, right? With humility, elevating them up to the position of where we feel like we are at." [26:05]
3. "Our lives on this earth, guys, they are so short. With respect to all of eternity, for all of eternity, that's still to happen. Our lives, your life, my life, our lives are so short on this earth relative to eternity. So, does it really matter how much money you make, how much success that you have, how high you've worked your way up the corporate ladder? Does it even matter how much money you retire with, or die with, right? Does it matter how much you make, if it meant that you were unloving and kind to get it, right?" [27:34]
4. "You are to leverage gentleness in your life as a gift from God himself. You are to yield all of that to God Almighty. You are to leverage all of that as a gift from God and yield it to him with humility and submission to his perfect will over your life. Like that's the point. That's what's wrapped up in this word protase, right? It's not gentleness as in you are weak. It's you are strong, but you are gentle with it and how you treat and how you approach others." [11:36]
5. "We are to love God and love our neighbors, to love God and to love people, right? To love God and to love others, right? We are to serve one another humbly in love. He says this right earlier in the chapter. And remember when John says, we've talked about this before, he says, whoever does not love does not know God because God is love. Translation, if you aren't loving God, you're not loving God. If you aren't loving God, you're not loving others." [08:35]
### Quotes for Members
1. "How we engage others is what we do. So the tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. What matters most? Are we lovingly strong or are we recklessly weak? Are we patient and kind as we deal with others or are we combative with others? Are we tearing them down as we have conflict with each other? Here's the thing, conflict, you know this, I know this, conflict is going to happen. We are humans, we are imperfect, and we're dealing with other humans who are also, as it turns out, we're not perfect." [21:52](
| | )2. "Are you willing to take a patient approach? Are you willing to gently, even lovingly, guide your employee, guide your coworker, guide the other person in your office toward the solution that you want, even as you correct them? Are you willing to engage with them in a loving, healthy matter, right? To engage them in that way, even when there's conflict, even when you need them to change, are you willing to engage them? In a loving, kind, gentle manner?" [23:09](
| | )3. "When you go to work, instead of losing your cool, when somebody lets you down, somebody makes a mistake. How can you reshape your response to come with them humbly and lovingly, to guide them toward correction with a tongue that gives life to them the way that Jesus did with Peter and the way that he does with you? What can that look like in your work life as you go back to work? What about in your families, right? With your spouse, with your best friend, or with a family member? When you get into a fight, and you have some sort of disagreement, some sort of conflict, how can you reshape your posture with them to humbly come before them, to elevate them, even in the midst of conflict, to elevate them, to show them that they matter?" [30:20](
| | )4. "Living a life of gentleness is actually imperative to living out our calling to represent Jesus, because it's really core to who Jesus is. Jesus is gentle with us. Jesus is gentle with us. And I'll tell you a story here from the Bible that kind of, I think, defines it. It helps us see, you know, what Jesus means here. And we're going to look at this story about when Jesus meets up with his disciples after his death and after his resurrection. They all meet on the beach, right? The shore of Galilee. And that's where he kind of engages with them." [16:09](
| | )5. "Jesus calmly and lovingly restores Peter back into ministry, right? And I got to believe that at least on Peter's side of things, there had to be some tension there. There had to be some level of, I don't know, anxiety, right? He had just abandoned Jesus in his biggest time of need. moment of need, when he's been arrested, he's being confronted, he's actually starting to get beaten up a little bit, right? In that time of need, Peter denies even knowing that they know each other, right? He denies knowing him. And so right now, Peter's probably feeling some tension. And in this moment now, when they're regathered for what we understand to be the first time, we have no other indication that they had spoken or seen each other. In that moment, Jesus met Peter right there and lovingly restored him to ministry." [20:26](
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