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Leader's Notes: Purpose: To learn the true meaning of gentleness and how it can characterize our lives. Your aim in this study involves getting the group to understand that gentleness is a beautiful quality which can serve to enhance all the other pluses in one's personality. Again, you will be a more effective leader if the quality of gentleness has become vivid in your own life as a result of thinking through the answers to the questions. Ask God to work through his Spirit to change your life. Your group will sense the change, and your leadership will be different. The word gentleness conjures up wrong images for some people. It may denote a syrupy, self-denying quality. Or a quality which women have but "real men" do not! On the other hand, gentleness may be something we want very much. But we feel discouraged because the whole make-up of our personality is so far from being gentle. The Apostle Paul's treatment of the Thessalonians provides a model of the gentleness God desires in us.

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Leader's Notes: If we are not gentle, we need to ask God to change our lives to be gentle so we are not hindering the gospel ourselves. Otherwise, how can we say we are willing to give our lives for the sake of the gospel?