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Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict is unavailable, but you can change that!

Church conflict is neither isolated nor uncommon. Pastors, governing boards, and denominational leaders spend a major portion of their time each year assessing, mediating, and reconciling church conflicts. You may be facing some level of conflict in your church right now. Making Peace collects the lessons and experience of more than ten years of work in church conflict resolution. Jim Van Yperen...

Our fighting resembles our values as well. To defend our point of view, we quote Scriptures that prove how we are right and the other is wrong. We divide over narrow and legalistic notions of truth. One small church we served actually had two youth groups—one for home-school kids and the other for Christian school and public school children. Or we separate people by having special services and support groups for the divorced, for singles and single moms, or for people with addictive behaviors. Most
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