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Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Do not let the sun go down on your wrath; neither give place to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26,27
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts Problems are like termites. The longer they are left, the more they multiply!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts Like a coin or a bill, every story has two sides!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts Three Sides? My side The right side! Your side
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Let each of you look out not only for his own interest, but also for the interests of others” Philippians 2:4
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”Colossians 4:6
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • Speaker • 1.Problem • 2.Feelings • 3.Wants • 4.“I” Statements
Three Essentials to Successful Communication “An effective “I” statement states the problem, tells how I feel about it, and says what I want.”
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”James 1:19
Three Essentials to Successful Communication Effective or active listening hears what is said plus what’s not said. It combines words, tone and body language to interpret feelings. It grasps the total message.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • Listener • 5. Interpreting • 6. Empathizing • 7. Mirroring • 8. “You” Statement
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts Like a coin or a bill, every story has two sides!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts Together 9.Exchange10.Discover each other’s real needs.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • The root of every marital problem is“self first”James 4: 1, 2 • The solution to each conflict is“spouse first”Romans 15:1,2
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “For even Christ did not please Himself” Romans 15:3
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • Action Plan • List all the options. • Decide on the best one. • 3. Let it be a win-win solution.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Confess your faults one to another…that you may be healed.”James 5:16
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • The easy question: “Where was my mate wrong?” • The important question: “Where was I wrong?”
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts When the storms arise, Christ, the Prince of peace, will rise and say, “Peace, be still.”
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts There is another conflict that needs to be resolved. • The two parties are my God and I. • This separation is caused by sin. • I was born separated from my God.
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “But your iniquities have separated you from your God” Isaiah 59:2
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts There are seven steps for reconciliation with God. He has taken six! I only need to take one!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts At the close of this meeting, I will invite every man and every woman to come to this altar and take step #7!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “In the beginning was the Word, And the Word was with God, And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, And dwelt among us.” John 1:1,14
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts This a incompre-hensible mystery!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts The Mighty God, implanted in the womb of a woman, and be born of a virgin!He is “Immanuel, God with Us!”
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • See His back bleeding from 39 lashes twice! • Feel the nails tearing the flesh of His hands and feet!
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • Hear His cry, “My God! Why have You forsaken Me?”
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” Hebrews 4:14
Seven Steps for Resolving Conflicts • CHRIST IS MY PRIEST! • I don’t need an earthly priest to intercede with God for me. • I can talk to God myself, through Jesus, my heavenly High Priest. • Christ gives me grace, pardon and peace continually.
