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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...

to strengthen their position by demonizing or negating others. SEEING THE SYSTEM DYNAMIC These inadequate conflict responses are part of the “system dynamic”1 that creates the climate for the conflict as well as increases the time and effort it will take to resolve it. By system dynamic we mean the interrelationship of external and internal forces that influence our decisions and create the conditions for conflict. A system dynamic is a structure that underlies the way we organize, work, lead, and
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