RELATIONSHIP KEYS Part 2: How To Handle Conflict In Relationships

How do we deal with conflict within relationships?

You can have peace with a relationship even if you don’t have peace in a relationship.

Matthew 18:15 NIV
15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.

Matthew 18:15 BSB
15 If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

Matthew 5:23 NIV
23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,

Before making things right with God, you have to make things right with others.

When someone has sinned against you? GO
When someone has something against you? GO

Matthew 5:24 NIV
24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

Confess your wrongs = REPENT
Take full responsibility for your wrongs

Matthew 5:24 NIV
24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

Reconciliation = Turning Tension into Talk

When should I go?
When I’ve been wronged.
When someone thinks I’ve wronged them

Ephesians 4:26-27 NIV
26 “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold.

Go humbly