Many times conflict arises not because of what someone said, but because of what they didn’t say. In this talk from the 2014 Global Leadership Summit there are many good points to help you and the people around you.
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Don't talk bad about the building or the customs!
and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, 14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.” … It represented a lot to the Jewish people, but at the same time the building they were in was far beyond God’s design and had a ton of improvements from an evil Gentile ruler.
Great Section on Change from "The Forgotten Ways" by Alan Hirsch
A couple years ago I was reading “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch. At some point I stopped. I’m not sure why. I remember around that time I was getting really frustrated with the way church was and I was reading a lot of books about the problems with church but I couldn’t find much […]