Hey everyone, today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going to continue in our series that I know is blessing you called You Make Me Crazy.

Now in this series, Rick gives us biblical wisdom to help us in every aspect of our relationships, even dealing with the crazy makers in our lives. Okay, now here's Pastor Rick Warren

with part one of a message called Resolving Conflict. If you have a Bible, you might want to open to the

Book of Romans chapter 12. We're in this series that we're doing on building healthy relationships

that I'm calling, You Make Me crazy. And this weekend, I want to

talk about one of the most important skills you never learned. It is the skill of resolving conflict.

As I look back over all of the people, individuals, and couples that I've counseled over the

years, without a doubt, the number one thing I've spent much of my life doing is helping

people negotiate conflict.

Conflict at work, conflict with your spouse, conflict with your kids, conflict with a boyfriend or girlfriend,

conflict in the community.

Because the world is broken, there is conflict everywhere.

National conflicts, we know what's going on in Syria, Egypt, other places around the world,

political conflicts

that leave the nation in a mess, economic conflicts, relational conflicts, sexual conflicts.

There's conflict in every area and every segment of society.

So one of the most important skills you have to learn is how to resolve conflict.

It is essential to your happiness. If you don't know how to resolve conflict, you walk around

caring conflict most of your life, which leaves you miserable. You can be wealthy, you can be attractive, you can be successful,

you can be talented, and if your relationships suck, you're a mess. If your relationships aren't good,

if you're carrying conflict and you don't know how to deal with it, that relative, that in-law, that friend, that boss, then you don't know

how to be happy because it just sucks the life right out of you.

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