Clothed with Kindness (Colossians 3:12)

Renewed / Clothed with Kindness

September 24, 2023

Colossians 3:12

Study Questions

1. What are some unhealthy practices in our culture today that we wrongly justify (rather than acknowledge as being a lack of kindness)?

2. In the following verses, how is God’s kindness expressed? 

Lamentations 3:22-23

Psalm 145:17

Titus 3:4-6

Ephesians 1:9-10

Hosea 11:1-4

Luke 6:35

3. According to Colossians 3:9-10, what is the difference between working hard to be a kinder person and being clothed in the kindness of God? (See also Galatians 5:16; 22-25.)

4. What can/does squelch the outflowing of God’s kindness? 

5. What do you struggle with that you need to ‘take off’ in order to allow the Holy Spirit to change your heart with kindness?

6. Why is home often the most difficult place to practice kindness? What does clothing yourself in God’s kindness look like there? How about at work, your school, in your community?