Is gentleness merely another word for “play well with others?”  Is that what Christians are called to do: be nice, be gentle?  Here’s the thing, we worship a God that tears everything apart and makes all things new.  If you have ever had your life ripped apart you know that is not a gentle experience, but God asks that we shake the world to its foundations.  The secret is that we must do it gently with  gentleness that is not mistaken for niceness, but with genuine care because the “news” God has given us is at times not nice, but always “gentle.”