Welcome to the Raise to Deliver podcast with Vladimir Savchuk.

When you are saved, you are raised from a life of sin, bondage and darkness to a glorious new life in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Spirit will use this podcast to bring complete freedom and healing into your life,

as well as to equip you to bring his kingdom to those around you.

Let's dive into this episode. Hi there. I want to share with you about five keys to handle church

conflict. Conflict in the church disagreements, fights in the church is pretty common. In fact, as long as there's people

in the church, there will always be disagreements. There's always going to be certain misunderstandings,

and sometimes even fights. Many people, the way they handle the church conflict is they gossip.

Some, they get offended, harbor

offense inside, become bitter, and others just simply leave the church, go to another church,

and hit a similar conflict, and then just go from one church to another, instead of learning

to resolve those conflicts. Today I was reading in the book of Acts chapter 15.

It's pretty much a whole chapter deals with conflict.

It starts with Apostle Paul being in a particular city,

and some people came and talked about circumcision and Moses' law,

how Christians should still keep it in order to be saved.

And Paul gets in a fight with them. In fact, the fight was so big that Paul had to go to Jerusalem.

And there was another fight in Jerusalem. The scripture says there was a lot of arguing going on

until James and Peter got up and kind of sorted everything out and guided the whole church in a direction

that they felt the Holy Spirit is guiding them. And then the chapter ends. Peter got up and kind of sorted everything out and guided the whole church in a direction that

they felt the Holy Spirit is guiding them. And then the chapter ends, you would think like,

okay, awesome, we just fixed a really big fight. It ends with Paul fighting with Barnabas. In fact,

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