Last week we looked at inner conflict. In today’s message our focus is on Me-You Conflict. Essentially, we are talking about leveraging and resolving external conflict. The reality for many people is that because they do not know how to resolve conflict a lot of time is wasted, and they fail to get things done in their lives. Think of how much time is wasted at home and at work because of unresolved conflict. What is your relationship with conflict? What difficult conversations do you need to have in order to advance action in your life? I believe that conflict is something we can leverage off. It is not something to just manage, but relationships can grow through conflict. Research was carried out on marriages that were struggling. Some ended up surviving whilst others ended in divorce. The ones that ended up surviving had one common denominator; the couples knew how to fight properly. In life we cannot avoid conflict, so we need to know how to engage in it effectively and biblically. If you examine the moments of conflict you have with people around you, you will observe that they tend to fall into one or two categories with each person. Our key focus in this message will be on identifying the various sources of conflict and establishing how to resolve what stems from them. We will look at 10 reasons why people fight and what we can do about it.
