How to Resolve Conflict
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Conflict resolution is an entire field of practice—used from the counselor’s couch to the United Nations. Evidently, conflicts were a problem in early congregations. James, in forceful language, addressed this and told his audience how to fix it. Today we see several steps to resolve conflict. And today, instead of me writing the outline for you, I will let you do the honors.
I. Recognize the Source
II. Realize the Consequence
III. Repent of Your Attitude
IV. Resist the Devil
V. Rest in God
Talk with God: Ask the Lord to reveal areas in your life that you haven’t submitted to His control. Surrender them to Him this week as you “draw near to God” (v. 8).
Talk with others: Do you need to seek resolution or reconciliation with someone in order to “live in peace with everyone” (Romans 12:18, NLT)?
Talk with kids: What are reasons others might not know about Jesus? How can we help them learn about Jesus?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. |
| 0:03.0 | We're so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:05.0 | While many books, articles, and social media posts offer advice on adulting in our daily lives, |
| 0:10.0 | there's only one resource to help us become spiritually mature believers. |
| 0:15.0 | God's Word. |
| 0:16.0 | This study in the book of James with Pastor Skip will encourage you to embrace discipline and difficulty |
| 0:21.0 | to glorify God and demonstrate your faith to others. |
| 0:25.1 | Turn to the book of James, Chapter 4. It's called Adulting. It's all about Christian maturity. |
| 0:32.3 | And so we're going to be in James Chapter 4. Before we get into our Bible study, though, I just |
| 0:37.3 | want to say a few words about |
| 0:38.6 | the Olympics. I love watching Olympics, winter or summer. I've always loved them, and typically |
| 0:46.8 | I like the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but this year I was offended, as were over several billion others |
| 0:59.2 | on the earth, at a very crude and lewd depiction of The Last Supper by the Trans-Community and the trans community and drag queens kind of dressing up like the depiction of Jesus |
| 1:17.1 | and the disciples at the Last Supper. |
| 1:19.1 | Some are trying to walk that back and say, no, it's about Dionysius. |
| 1:22.9 | But everyone else in the world understood it to be a mockery of the Last Supper. |
| 1:30.2 | And listen, I expect the world to be worldly. |
| 1:33.3 | I don't expect them to live at a high standard, but on purpose, they crossed the line. |
| 1:39.6 | And the reason I'm bringing it up is I just want to say to the church, to believers, two things. |
| 1:45.8 | Number one, learn to tell time. |
| 1:51.1 | Understand what day we're living in. |
| 1:53.0 | The Bible says, in the last days, men will be lovers of themselves, proud, arrogant, blasphemers. |
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