The Fruit of the Spirit… and the Fraught Words that Divide Us

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things… if we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23, 25)

The fruit of the Spirit, listed by the Apostle Paul in the fifth chapter of Galatians, is one of my favorite of New Testament passages. I see it as equal to the Beatitudes in terms of establishing a concise statement of what a transformed spi...