1. PEACE IN THE FAMILY
Pastor Rick Tawney
March 17, 2019

2. What causes fights and quarrels among you
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
James 4:1

3. How do I build a damn to stop the flow of this raging river of conflict?

4. How do I build a bridge over this raging river of conflict to be with the other person on their side of the river?

5. The Problem
We either AVOID conflict
We cause MORE conflict

6. Three responses to conflict
INTIMIDATE
AVOID
SURFACE HARMONY
RELATIONAL DISTANCE

7. Three responses to conflict
LEARN
INTIMIDATE
AVOID
SURFACE HARMONY
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
RELATIONAL DISTANCE

8. “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

9. How do I become a humble learner?
Rely on God’s Resources

10. Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.5 Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

11. How do I become a humble learner?
Rely on God’s Resources
Listen to the whole story

12. I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words
I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. I took counsel with myself…

13. How do I become a humble learner?
Rely on God’s Resources
Listen to the whole story
Move towards the hurt

14. What would it look like right now for me to be a humble learner?

16. PEACE IN THE FAMILY
Pastor Rick Tawney
March 17, 2019