Resolving Everyday Conflict
Conflict is common. It’s common to all people and it’s common to all of life. It’s usually experienced in our ordinary interactions with an overbearing boss, a challenging colleague, a difficult neighbor, a moody teenager, a complaining spouse, etc. Conflict is common but applying the gospel to our conflicts is not. Most of us hate conflict. So we either respond with dysfunctional conflict avoidance or dysfunctional anger. Either way bitterness and callousness set in. Though we want to deal with conflict in a more God-honoring, people-loving way we often do not know how to.
Resolving Everyday Conflict is a nine-week study, based on the book by Peacemaker Ministries, that seeks to unpack key biblical principles for dealing with conflict resolution and cultivating healthier relationships. It is a Christ-centered study that presents powerful and practical answers to everyday problems. Whether you’re struggling in a relationship at home, at work, at school, or know someone who is, this study offers help for living out the gospel in our relationships.
Workbooks are available for this study (from our Wednesday night service – 7:00pm each week). If you would like to purchase a copy, please email the church office. Cost per book: $5. I addition, you can also pick up the book copy of the original material from Peacemaker Ministries: Resolving Everyday Conflict here.
Manny Pereira - May 22, 2019
Unforgetting Heaven (Introduction)
We were created by God to glorify and enjoy Him forever. These are the things of heaven. At best the realization of our chief end is incomplete and tainted without it. We rightly celebrate justification by faith alone in Christ who was crucified for our sins as the core of the gospel. But the glory of the gospel is greater still than forgiveness and justification. God’s good news promises God’s relationship with us in full restoration. Everlasting life wherein God dwells with us—this is where we will finally realize the fullness of glorifying and enjoying God … forever. Yet the church today seems to be suffering from a sort of amnesia concerning this glory of the gospel. This introductory session addresses the lack of heaven in our hearts. It calls for a greater prominence of the gospel’s glory in our worldview.