Mercy and Care Are Not Always Enough

I’ve had two rough nights of insomnia—so of course I’m completely fried. But my coauthor on Redeeming Church Conflicts (Dave Edling) is obviously not. He keeps writing these challenging, thoughtful blog posts that truly show why we started with hundreds of thousands of words for our book when I “interviewed” Dave on the topic and we began piecing together the manuscript—Man! That guy has a lot of experience on this topic (!).

This is a sobering read, but encouraging too because (as always) Dave not only diagnoses the heart of many of our church conflicts, he also points us to our only hope in all of our conflicts: