6 Principles Healthy Churches Use To Deal With Conflict Well

Conflict is inevitable. Even in a healthy marriage, family and church. Like healthy marriages and families, healthy churches don’t avoid conflict, but they deal with it well. I’ve been in pastoral ministry for more than 35 years. In the early days, I dealt with more conflict than in recent years. Not because the early churches were bad, but because I didn’t know how to deal with conflict as well as I do today. Unfortunately, I learned how to deal with conflict the hard way – by making mistakes. Through those mistakes, then through watching and learning from other churches who manage conflict well., I have landed on 6 principles that healthy churches use to deal with conflict well:

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Conflict is inevitable. Even in a healthy marriage, family and church.

Like healthy marriages and families, healthy churches don’t avoid conflict, but they deal with it well.

I’ve been in pastoral ministry for more than 35 years. In the early days, I dealt with more conflict than in recent years. Not because the early churches were bad, but because I didn’t know how to deal with conflict as well as I do today.

Unfortunately, I learned how to deal with conflict the hard way – by making mistakes.

Through those mistakes, then through watching and learning from other churches, I have discovered 6 principles that healthy churches use to deal with conflict well:

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