What are your answers to these questions?

One simple thing they all rightfully mean is >

"rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (1 Peter 3:4)

Our Heavenly Father is pleased with how His love makes us gentle and quiet in His love. This is like to how Jesus is "gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." (in Matthew 11:28-30)

So, basic to the meaning of all your questions is how we seek God for Himself and how He personally corrects our character so we become gentle and quiet in His love. And this is pleasing to Him, more and more like Jesus is so pleasing to our Father.

"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2)

So, included in this is how God's love in our nature makes us sweetly pleasing while we go through anything, like Jesus was so pleasing even during His suffering and death on the cross.

God is not silent, but He is quiet. And we can share personally with Him, by being quiet with Him in His gentle and quiet and pleasantly patient love. And in this quietness we share with God in His own creativity for how to relate with one another and how to love each and every person.

And so we need to not give in to the unquiet and even tormenting things which attack us and try to violate us. Do not give in to "complaining and disputing" (Philippians 2:13-16), boredom and loneliness, worry and its pathological lying, frustration and burn-out, nasty anger and unforgiveness, and dominating and dictatorial drives for pleasure and excitement. But Jesus is gentle in us, does not waste and drive and distract us, but Jesus gives us "rest for your souls" (in Matthew 11:28-30).

So, in all that you are talking about, Jesus means for us to rest in Him

"Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)

Mark 12:28-31 (NIV)

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Too many questions for real answers. Each could be relatively long. I will point out another verse for what the others have posted:

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2, 1984 NIV; also see the rest of the first parts of Hebrews 12)

com7fy8 said:

So, in all that you are talking about, Jesus means for us to rest in Him

"Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)

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Praise the Lord for that rest.

BibleloverBill said:

***On May 3, 2013, late at night, the following questions came to mind. H

Which logical order of importance should they be sorted?

What does a God-pleasing day include?

What does a God-pleasing church include?

What does a God-pleasing marriage include?

What does a God-pleasing family include?

What does a God-pleasing prayer include?

What does a God-pleasing Bible study include?

What does a God-pleasing church outreach include?

What does a God-pleasing fun or vacation include?

What does Philippians 4:4-8 mean in actual living?

What does Philippians 2:1-5 mean in actual living?

What does Ephesians 4:11-16 mean in actual living?

What does Jude 20-23 mean in actual living?

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Edifying thread. Thank you for posting it. Praise the Lord.

I didn't say they were too complex. It is common for me to spend 1-2 hours, sometimes 3+ hours writing posts to help people. Your subsequent emails indicate you are not looking for help to understand them, but perhaps fellowship/discussion, but I am less motivated in those circumstances, and the Jude passage would require I do some nontrivial study, since I have not done so for that passage before.

Edited.

In my #4 post My second sentence gave the reason for the first sentence. It often takes me a long time to write up even things I understand. I always strive to make them easy to understand which tends to require several rewrites.

Fellowship is commanded by God and is not trivial in the least. We are a body.

May the Lord bless you and your ministry.