Conflict Resolution

Relational bad habits are easy to pick up and readily available to anyone with social media access. Unresolved conflict that keeps festering will undo any and all of our relationships. Three high level truths: [1] we share the common bond of being made in the image of God and should treat each other with dignity and respect - for everyone in Christ - we are brothers & sisters, [2] because of sin in each of us conflict is inevitable, [3] and as strange as it sounds conflict can be a good thing at times - God uses conflict as a tool to shape and form us as people of grace (“as iron sharpens iron”). Practical advice from Eph 4:15 [1] speak up [2] speak the truth (words they said/actions they did & how it made you feel) [3] speak the truth in love - there is a qualifying motivation that underscores our speaking truth (love), don’t speak to shame them, guilt them, destroy them, or own them, but to love them [4] so that everyone can grow/mature - I can grow, you can grow in Christ, in grace