Be Gentle, Mature Christian. Be Gentle

In Hebrews 5. 2, this morning where the author of Hebrews says that the human high priest could deal gently with the ignorant and wayward because he understood that he too was prone to human weakness and failure. It's a beautiful reference to how we go about reaching those who are ignorant (without knowledge is the greek work) and deceived (again is the greek word).

Gentle is probably not an accurate definition of this difficult to translate word. A full explanation of the word would seem to be to deal moderately with people. In other words, not to be either too harsh, or so gentle that those who are ignorant and wayward do not understand that they need to change.

The point I want to take from the passage is that we approach people who need to change with humility because we understand our own tendency to wander and fail.