Conflict, it is inevitable, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. However, left unresolved, conflict

has the power to destroy even the strongest marriages.

So how do you resolve conflict?

How do you work through it effectively?

That's what we're going to talk about today.

Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused

on helping Christians live like Christians.

And today ship continues our series experiencing God's dream for your marriage

with the second half of his talk conflict resolution,

how to fight fair in marriage and in case you

miss part one of this message visit living on the edge dot org or the chipping grow map

to catch out I think it'll be well worth your time. Well there's a lot more helpful

content to get to on this topic so let's join Chip now for today's talk. Now what

I like to do is I want to walk through an acronym.

Are you ready for this? Defuse.

Can you believe I use that acronym?

We want to diffuse the conflict.

And literally I look this up in Webster's, it's the idea of something that's kind of coming

to a boil and to diffuse means to spread it out.

We want to diffuse the anger, diffuse the argument,

diffuse the conflict so that instead of it being attacking one another,

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