Mediating and Resolving Church Conflict
This session went full bore. There were a ton of notes so I won't post them all. I'll hit some highlights.
The Institutes of Biblical Law by Rousas J. Rushdoony
"Death is the end of conflict and a society in search of a false peace is in search of death."
"There are basically two forms of conflict resolution: administered rules and fighting. Law and war. Too much of either destroys what it is meant to protect and aggrandize." - Paul Bohannan
Anything that interferes with goal-directed behavior causes frustration and an important form of frustration is conflict.
"One of the least positive avenues of handling conflict is to simply ignore it."
"If we defend ourselves from our pain we are not going to grow." DPD
"Legalism is nothing more than a demonstration of the lack of God's grace."
"You cannot handle church conflict any better than you can handle personal conflict."
A true leader of God is secure and strong - the false leader is so insecure in his relationship with God and others that he must compensate by unscriptural domination and dictatorship over God's people.
There was a lot of material for resolving conflict and how to deal with the different levels of conflict. Too much to put on here though.
This session went full bore. There were a ton of notes so I won't post them all. I'll hit some highlights.
The Institutes of Biblical Law by Rousas J. Rushdoony
"Death is the end of conflict and a society in search of a false peace is in search of death."
"There are basically two forms of conflict resolution: administered rules and fighting. Law and war. Too much of either destroys what it is meant to protect and aggrandize." - Paul Bohannan
Anything that interferes with goal-directed behavior causes frustration and an important form of frustration is conflict.
"One of the least positive avenues of handling conflict is to simply ignore it."
"If we defend ourselves from our pain we are not going to grow." DPD
"Legalism is nothing more than a demonstration of the lack of God's grace."
"You cannot handle church conflict any better than you can handle personal conflict."
A true leader of God is secure and strong - the false leader is so insecure in his relationship with God and others that he must compensate by unscriptural domination and dictatorship over God's people.
There was a lot of material for resolving conflict and how to deal with the different levels of conflict. Too much to put on here though.
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