And what makes a healthy culture, and a healthy church, is not that we all walk in lock-step with one another. But that we trust each other enough, we have enough relational capital, that we’ve earned the right to fight, and to challenge each other.

2. Civility is the art of upholding human dignity even in
the face of sharp disagreement with others.

3. I’m a great sinner, but Christ is a great Savior.

4. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,
compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness,
and patience, bearing with one another and, if one
has a complaint against another, forgiving each
other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must
forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds
everything together in perfect harmony. And let the
peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed

5. you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the
word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and
admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with
thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever
you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him.
- Colossians 3:12-17

6. Ask questions with “humble curiosity.”

7. When I ask questions, I:

8. When I ask questions, I:
1) Learn things

9. When I ask questions, I:
1) Learn things
2) Show kindness, humility, meekness and patience

10. When I ask questions, I:
1) Learn things
2) Show kindness, humility, meekness and patience
3) Gain an ally

11. If we get the Gospel right, everything else we
can figure out.

12. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching
and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with
thankfulness in your hearts to God.
- v. 16