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 - January 26, 2022
Called to Love One Another
The church exists to make much of Christ, not the church. And the way we relate to one another serves this great end. This first lesson introduces the theme of the “one anothers” for Christ. The first three are considered, identifying both our relationship and responsibility to one another. The grand virtue of love is the first responsibility covered in the series. Love is the hallmark of Christ’s redeemed—specifically love to God and love to one another. It is the highest interpersonal expression of Christlikeness. Love occupies more than 30% of the one anothers. It towers over every other responsibility given to the church, occurring more than five times as often as any other one another duty.
