Redeeming Church Conflicts
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Top Ten Reasons Our Kids Leave The Church
This is an excellent article for every Christian in the church. I bet even Cap’n Dave would approve! And it gives me serious pause as to how much my parenting and care for my friends in the church is intentionally pushing back against this tide: Top Ten Reasons Our Kids Leave the Church (HT: Z)
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Helping our Pastors to Exercise Faith
Cap’n Dave is almost halfway through his seven-part series on “How to Preserve Your Pastor” and today’s entry is definitely worth the read: How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 3): Failure to Exercise Faith
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Some pastors are overly concerned about their critics.
Dave has a great article over at our RedeemingChurchConflicts blog. Here is just a snippet to hopefully tempt you to click through and read it all: “Pastors, just like the rest of us, want to be liked. They desire meaningful friendships and frequently go out of their way to demonstrate hospitality to church members. They also want the admiration of the members of their church because they know the grace-filled message of God’s Word will be more readily accepted if the messenger is appreciated for both his biblical knowledge and consistent Christian character and gentle witness. Most pastors seek to avoid conflict with church members believing that such encounters may…
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How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 1)
I always appreciate Cap’n Dave’s careful analysis and writing. Today’s post is no exception: How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 1) — Lack of Practical Training for Local Church Ministry: The Problem of Misguided and Misstated Expectations (And as a sweet aside—I love that his title barely fits one tweet. And that this is part 1 of 7 in the series. No sentimentality / shallow / non-thinking / fluffy stuff with Dave, thank God.)
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Res Ipsa Loquitur: Destructive Church Conflict Reveals Worldliness
A great post by Cap’n Dave over at our Redeeming Church Conflicts site:
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In Your Anger Do Not Sin
A great post by Dave over at our Redeeming ChurchConflicts blog: In Your Anger Do Not Sin In it, he mentions one of my favorite books on anger: Robert D. Jones’, Uprooting Anger: Biblical Help for a Common Problem
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Church conflict often robs us of an accurate, hopeful, God-centered perspective.
(One of my favorite parts of Redeeming Church Conflicts is the introduction to Section 1: Perspective. I have heard and seen Cap’n Dave minister this message to so many people over the years–especially pastors who were tempted to despair over conflicts in their churches. I hope you enjoy …) SECTION 1: Perspective “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’” Isaiah 46:10 “How do you overcome? You get a breathtaking glimpse of God and the Lamb. You take your eyes off your earthly situation and gaze into heaven and see what true…
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When Christians fight, they become either legalistic legalists or legalistic antinomians …
I think Dave Edling’s post over at our RedeemingChurchConflicts site is brilliant. One of his best writings to date! I encourage you to read and enjoy: 495 Years and a Lot of Conflict Two of my favorite excerpts from the essay: There has been one consistently common thread among all church conflicts. It is best captured by a question: If we are justified before God not by our works but the free grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ, why are church conflicts almost always characterized by defensiveness and self-righteousness? What happens when Christians fight is that they become either legalistic legalists or legalistic antinomians. They defend their…
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Other Things You Can Do Rather Than Fire Your Pastor
Dave wrote a great post over at RedeemingChurchConflicts.com that I encourage you to check out: Other Things You Can Do Rather Than Fire Your Pastor He wrote this in response to the (sad) fact that the most common search term for our Redeeming Church Conflict site has always been (and remains) “How to Fire Your Pastor.” Tragic.
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Nothing to be gained by dying on the hill of a best memory contest …
As usual, Dave has all of the best lines in our most recent post, including this one: When it comes to redeeming conflict, “There is nothing to be gained by dying on the hill of a best memory contest.” Amen to that, brother! Hope you enjoy the entire post: Redeeming Church Conflict is Not an Event—But an Unfolding Process of God’s Grace