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Week 1: Glorify God. COLOSSIANS 3:1-17. Week 1: Glorify God. COLOSSIANS 3:1-17. Why Are We Doing This Again?. We don’t usually learn something well by being told just once. We deal with conflict regularly and it has a the potential to cause a lot of problems.
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Week 1: Glorify God COLOSSIANS 3:1-17
Week 1: Glorify God COLOSSIANS 3:1-17
Why Are We Doing This Again? • We don’t usually learn something well by being told just once. • We deal with conflict regularly and it has a the potential to cause a lot of problems
3 Different Perspectives on Conflict • Escape Responses: It’s too risky; we fear being hurt. • Attack Responses: Attack it head on even if it hurts. • See Conflict as an Opportunity
Conflict as an Opportunity • A mindset focused on Christ puts aside attackresponses. • A mindset focused on Christ puts aside escaperesponses. • A mindset focused on Christ sees conflict as an opportunity to be glorifyGod by being compassionatelike Him.
1 Peter 2:19-21 “This is a gracious thing [in God’s sight], when mindful of God one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. If you when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in God’s sight!”