Week 7 - Fight Cleanly

Unresolved conflicts produce some of the greatest tensions in our lives. We hate them, and often do not know what to do about them. Instead of risking a broken relationship, we prefer to settle for a “false peace.” True peacemakers love God, others, and themselves enough to disrupt false peace. This is the mature, loving thing to do.

Unfortunately, fighting for true peace requires skills we do not possess. We end up in conflict that spirals out of control with dirty fighting tactics. Even with good intentions, in our anger, we sin, or we fake peace by pretending that everything is alright in the presence of sin and injustice. 

While we must not fake peace, God cares deeply about the way that we have conflict with other people. He calls us to fight cleanly.