Reconcile Quickly
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Is conflict management different for Christians?
What does biblical conflict resolution look like?
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Talk to your brother, not about your brother.
But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Be persistent in the work of reconciliation.
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
Make the goal true reconciliation, not false peace.
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Treat reconciliation as a work of eternal importance.
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Reconciliation is about God healing his people by his Son Jesus Christ.
Stop trying to manage discomfort. Start seeking God-filled reconciliation.
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Jesus did not die so that we could tolerate each other. Jesus died so that our sins could be reconciled.
Reconcile to your fellow man this week.
Be reconciled to God now.