Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness and Goodness

A popular bumper sticker, "practice random acts of kindness" seems to promote an action in common with Scripture. On closer inspection, it is clear that Biblical kindness is very different than humanistic kindness. At the heart of the difference between these competing concepts is the thought that Scripture explicitly says that unbelievers are not "kind" (Romans 3:12) and that true kindness is manifesting the genuineness of Christian sonship by conforming to the ethical pattern of conduct displayed by the Heavenly Father who is kind to ungrateful and evil men (Luke 6:35).