2. Take a deep breath...

3. Discipleship

4. and...

5. It’s our witness.

6. The Remedy?

7. Christianity is best seen as a lived practice and example, rather than a lecture. It means that Christianity is made credible by works of love, compassion, service.
Jonathan Merritt
Learning to Speak God From Scratch

9. Today: Get Real

10. Today: Get Real
The Foundation

11. Crossroads - Commit to Grace

12. Crossroads - Commit to Grace
“We recognize that conflict is normal and inevitable in any size group of people AND will happen in the church. So we pledge to work through conflict using the following Biblical guidelines.”

13. As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:1-3

14. As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:1-3

15. Keys for this series:
seek to understand,

16. O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love.
The Prayer of St. Francis

17. to be understood as to understand
not so much seek
to be understood as to understand

18. I’m sure you know that most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are! Take that as a given.
Richard Rohr
Breathing Underwater

19. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh (mostly at yourself)

20. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh (mostly at yourself)

21. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh (mostly at yourself)
“I’m sorry I didn’t meet the expectations you didn’t lay out for me.” (sarcasm)

22. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh (mostly at yourself)
“I’m sorry I didn’t meet the expectations you didn’t lay out for me.” (sarcasm)
“Thank you for not meeting the expectations I didn’t lay out for you.” (self-deprecating)

23. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh, apologize

24. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh, apologize
AA Step 10: Continued to take a personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

25. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh, apologize, forgive

26. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh, apologize, forgive
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32

27. Keys for this series:
seek to understand, laugh, apologize, forgive

28. Where are you being called to seek to understand?
Call to Faith
Where are you being called to seek to understand?