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 - February 6, 2019
Scripture: Seeking the Mind of Christ
Unit 4: Our Supply
It is one thing to say that we value God’s word, it is entirely another to be transformed by it. In the former, the mind sits above Scripture—even if in admiration of it. In the latter, the mind submits to Scripture to be governed, shaped, and trained by it. In the former, the mind is judge over Scripture. In the latter, the Scripture is judge over the mind. Only when we yield our minds to the authority of God-breathed Scripture will we find the first supply needed in the discipline of our minds for the sake of loving God.
