CONNECTING POINT - TOGETHER: Refreshing Your Thoughts on Conflict

The return to self-control and godliness is perhaps in the air. For example, the latest Pew Research poll showed that the young subset of scientists, approximately aged 25 to 40, were 1/3 rd more likely to believe in God than older scientists. Is it the exploding national debt? Are people who have lost all faith in the fairness of national media again looking to God?

Pastors and congregants are to work together to fulfill the mandate that Jesus left us. Institutional breakdowns are all around us: marriage, family, government, naming the big ones. Handling conflict seems the biggest challenge....