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  • Christian Leaders Institute • Christian Growth Course

    Navigating Conflict in Christ

    Learn to move from the Wildfire of human conflict into the Peacefire of Christ through humility, prayer, grace-filled conversations, forgiveness, wisdom, boundaries, and restored relationships.

    1 Module Self-Paced Peacefire Framework Professor: Attorney/Pastor Brian DeCook
    M'inscrire
    Are you ready to follow Christ in the middle of conflict, respond with wisdom instead of reaction, and become a peaceful presence in your home, church, ministry, workplace, and community?

    Navigating Conflict in Christ, taught by Attorney/Pastor Brian DeCook, equips believers to see conflict as a place of discipleship, spiritual formation, humility, faithful witness, and deeper reliance on Jesus Christ.

    Course Purpose

    The purpose of Navigating Conflict in Christ is to help students understand how conflict can reveal the condition of the heart, expose destructive reactions, and invite believers into Christ-centered transformation.

    Using the Peacefire framework developed by Attorney/Pastor Brian DeCook, students learn to distinguish the Wildfire of flesh-driven reactions from the Peacefire of God’s presence, truth, grace, wisdom, and power.

    This course also exposes Strangefire, the temptation to pursue godly goals through self-powered or ungodly methods. Students are invited to seek God’s presence, own their part, confront sin wisely, forgive faithfully, and build appropriate firebreaks when needed.

    You’ll Learn To

    Recognize Conflict Patterns

    • Identify the Wildfire of offense, defensiveness, anger, blame, avoidance, control, and flesh-driven reactions.
    • Understand the desires, fears, expectations, and heart-level struggles that often sit beneath conflict.
    • Recognize Strangefire, where people may pursue good goals through unwise, self-powered, or ungodly methods.

    Practice Christ-Centered Response

    • Seek God’s presence before reacting, speaking, correcting, confronting, or withdrawing.
    • Practice confession, repentance, forgiveness, compassionate listening, humble obedience, and wise speech.
    • Move toward reconciliation when possible while honoring truth, safety, wisdom, and appropriate boundaries.

    Course Themes

    Peacefire Formation

    • The trap of offense
    • Personal responsibility
    • Confession and forgiveness
    • Reconciliation and restoration
    • The Jesus Mindset of humble obedience

    Practical Ministry Application

    • Marriage and family conflict
    • Parenting and household tension
    • Church life and ministry teams
    • Workplace and leadership settings
    • Loving opponents and enemies with wisdom

    What This Course Is Not

    Navigating Conflict in Christ does not teach conflict avoidance, religious niceness, people-pleasing, enabling, or pressure to reconcile without truth and safety.

    Instead, this course calls students to follow Christ with humility, courage, wisdom, grace, forgiveness, truth, boundaries, and relentless reliance on the presence and power of God.

    Course Outcomes

    By the end of this course, students will be better equipped to respond to conflict as followers of Christ rather than reacting from the flesh. They will learn to pause, pray, listen, confess, forgive, speak truth wisely, and pursue peace in ways that honor God and protect what is good.

    Steps Through the Course

    Recognize the Wildfire of human conflict.
    Seek God’s presence before reacting.
    Identify the desires beneath conflict.
    Practice confession, forgiveness, and wise speech.
    Build firebreaks through healthy boundaries.
    Walk in the Peacefire of Christ.

    Begin Your Journey Today

    Navigating Conflict in Christ invites you to become a person of peace, wisdom, humility, truth, grace, and faithful Christian witness in the middle of real-life conflict.

    Begin today and learn how Christ can transform conflict into a place of discipleship, healing, restored relationships, and deeper dependence on God.

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