Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kasti Hinn, and whether you're listening to this on your favorite podcast

platform or watching on our YouTube channel. I'm really thankful

that you've joined me for this episode. For the next two episodes, I want to unpack a much-needed

quality for the Christian, and it's one of the fruit of the spirit. Now, it may be, and I think

it is, one of the more rare qualities in the world today, including the church, but when this

quality is present in our lives,

we reflect Christ and it has powerful results. It can also be one of the more challenging

characteristics to exhibit. So we desperately need Christ to help us with this. I'm talking about

kindness. Kindness is a little lost on our society, to put it nicely.

From online bickering about politics to road rage to church splits, you have doctrinal division.

You've got us firing our opinions and our criticisms without good reason.

There's a lot of unkindness everywhere. And I would say this, it's not necessarily what we believe

or that we differ with others on issues in life. That's normal. That should be expected. But it's how

we interact with others and deal with those differences. Kindness in thought, in deed, in word,

in action is in short supply today. Now, there is a problem for us,

as Christians, if it's in short supply, because it's one of the fruit of the spirit. It should not be in

short supply. So if it is, well, then we're not bearing the fruit of the spirit in a way that

reflects Christ and his work in our lives. And here's

where the rub really kind of settles in on us. And it can be a lot like sandpaper. Maybe if you've

never heard this before, it makes you uncomfortable. But we at times view the fruit of the spirit as the

fruits of the spirit, as though there's nine. And like a grocery store, you know, you've got a lot of love or you've got

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