Christian Conflict
Christmas is coming, and that usually means that your wider family comes together. This is in fact what happened at the first Christmas. For many families Christmas is a wonderful time full of joy and laughter, but for some, often it is not. Large family gatherings tend to bring people with different opinions or ways of doing things and tensions can arise. The same is true for any family get together like weddings or birthday parties. This is what our church family is like all the time. Every week we have a large family gathering on a Sunday and sometimes conflict can arise which can lead to sinful behaviour. Like all families we need to learn to deal with conflict in a healthy way. So how do we deal with sinful behaviour in the church family? Jesus tells us how in Matt 18:15-20. ““If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along...