The document discusses anger and how to manage it. It notes that the author gets angry quickly so they must embrace patience, forgiveness, and self-control. It asks questions about what makes people angry, why they get angry, and how to respond to anger. The document references several Bible passages about anger, including ones about Moses and Jesus expressing anger. It suggests not letting the sun go down while still angry and not giving the devil a foothold. It asks how these instructions can be applied and discusses tending to get angry when not getting one's way or conditions not being met, and removing conditions and expectations from relationships.

2. I am quick tempered, I must
embrace patience!

4. I anger quickly, so I must
embrace forgiveness

6. I get angry, so I must think
before I speak

8. I am quick to anger and speak
out, so I must embrace
self-control.

10. I am quick to anger, so I must
embrace patience.

12. What makes you angry?

13. Why do you/we get angry?

14. How do you respond to anger?

15. Is being angry ever OK for a
Follower of The Way?

16. Then the LORD's anger burned
against Moses…
Exodus 4:14

17. Now leave me alone so that
my anger may burn against
them and that I may destroy
them. Then I will make you into
a great nation.
Exodus 4:14

18. Jesus entered the temple area
and drove out all who were
buying and selling there. He
overturned the tables of the
money changers and the
benches of those selling doves.
Matthew 21:12

19. quot;You have heard that it was
said, 'Love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.' But I tell you:
Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you…
Matthew 21:12

20. “In your anger do not sin.”Do
not let the sun go down while
you are still angry, and do not
give the devil a foothold.
Ephesians 4:26

21. Are there other
instructions/thoughts/points in
Scripture about anger?

22. When is it OK to be angry?

23. When is it NOT OK to be angry?

24. How can we apply all of this to
our lives?

25. We tend to get angry when we
don’t get our way.
We tend to get angry when our
conditions aren’t met.

26. Imagine if we removed all the
conditions and expectations in
our relationships…

27. What would that look like?

28. Other thoughts?