Reference

Galatians 5:22–25
Self-Control

Paul's fruit of the Spirit list is really meant to be taken all together, not overly broken down or isolated. But it's been helpful this summer to investigate the fruit in detail, because it's all too easy for words like love, kindness or patience to become familiar to the point of cliché, or even to misunderstand them based on our assumptions against Scripture’s meaning. So we've been strolling through "a full orchard" this summer, so to speak. Next week we’ll hear some concluding reflections, but today we’ll discuss one final aspect of the harvest of the Spirit: self-control.