HOW TO RESTORE HARMONY IN YOUR HOME // Family Works: Making Family Life EASIER [Part 2]

Jesus: “If a family divides itself into groups which fight each other, that family will fall apart.” Mark 3:25 (GNT)

I. The Reason for Conflict:

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have…You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight…” James 4:1-2a (NIV)

II. Pathway to Resolve Conflict:

1. Become a .

“Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.” Ephesians 2:16 (NLT)

2. Talk to about the Conflict.

“…You quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.” James 4:2b (NIV)

3. Analyze The .

“Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? …First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:3, 5 (GNT)

4. Schedule a Conference.

“If you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with your brother, and then come back and offer your gift to God.” Matthew 5:23-24 (GNT)

5. Establish before the Meeting.

“The fool who provokes his family to anger and resentment will finally have nothing worthwhile left…” Proverbs 11:29 (TLB)

6. Switch Your .

“Look out for one another’s interests, not just for your own. The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had.” Philippians 2:4-5 (GNT)

7. Don’t up

Conflict Stages:

1st Recognition… “We have a problem.”

2nd Reaction… “It’s worse than I thought.”

3rd Reaction… “What do we do about it?”

“Let us not grow weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” 

Galatians 6:9 (NIV)

What is your Next Step to bring Harmony into my home?