I am told that conflict is everywhere, that it is kind of a natural result of people living in community. Conflict, so I'm told, is not all bad. I'm not sure whether to think conflict is a result of the fall or whether there will be conflict in eternity...it's not really in my jurisdiction to decide. What I do know is that the kinds of conflict we have discussed in our interviews (not so much the ones from class) are mostly schismatic. The church, being a community of believers amongst other things, sets itself up for conflict just by the nature of what it is: a community. When the church is supposed to be "one" it is easy to often look as if the church is hypocritical and very much not "one."
While well-mediated conflict has a way of drawing people closer, Scripture is pretty one-sided about what needs to be done with conflict. It must be resolved and it must end in love.
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