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Restoring Relationships

Transforming Justice

Lecture 7

The Most Important Choice in Every Conflict

Every conflict presents an opportunity to make a choice that will determine whose purpose you will pursue in response to a conflict.

Every conflict presents an opportunity to make a choice that will determine whose purpose you will pursue in response to a conflict.

This choice also determines what power will be available to you as you endeavor to extinguish the conflict wildfire.

Every conflict presents an opportunity to make a choice that will determine whose purpose you will pursue in response to a conflict.

This choice also determines what power will be available to you as you endeavor to extinguish the conflict wildfire.

This choice also determines whether you will break free from a shallow wildfire identity and experience restorative justice.

Our Choices

Our choices are like seeds that we plant in the midst of a conflict. Each choice, like a seed, will eventually bear fruit in the conflict.

Our Choices

Our choices are like seeds that we plant in the midst of a conflict. Each choice, like a seed, will eventually bear fruit in the conflict.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Galatians 6:7

Our conflict choices have consequences!

Some Curious Questions

What choices did you make in the wildfire story that eventually brought you here to this class?

Some Curious Questions

What choices did you make in the wildfire story that eventually brought you here to this class?

Do you recognize the power of your choices and their impact on your relationships, your future, and your life?

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

Which fire will you choose to ignite your response to a conflict – what is happening in the wildfire, or what is happening at the Peacefire?

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

Which fire will you choose to ignite your response to a conflict – what is happening in the wildfire, or what is happening at the Peacefire?

We make this choice repeatedly during the course of a conflict.

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

Which fire will you choose to ignite your response to a conflict – what is happening in the wildfire, or what is happening at the Peacefire?

We make this choice repeatedly during the course of a conflict.

When the wildfire ignites our response to conflict, we are motivated by what is happening in the wildfire – what we see, hear, think and feel.

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

When the Peacefire ignites our response to conflict, we make faith choices in reliance on God’s Word, motivated by his love, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

When the Peacefire ignites our response to conflict, we make faith choices in reliance on God’s Word, motivated by his love, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. Prov. 3:5-7

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

When we choose the Peacefire, we choose to pursue and obey Jesus Christ.

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

When we choose the Peacefire, we choose to pursue and obey Jesus Christ.

The Lord promises to provide his transforming peace when we bring our choices to him.

The Most Important Choice in Conflict

When we choose the Peacefire, we choose to pursue and obey Jesus Christ.

The Lord promises to provide his transforming peace when we bring our choices to him.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.  Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD God is an everlasting rock.  Isaiah 26:3-4

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Our choices have consequences. 

The Bible teaches that we reap what we sow. 

The most important choice we make in conflict is this: Which fire will ignite your response to a conflict – what is happening at the wildfire or what is happening at the Peacefire? 

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When we choose the Wildfire, we choose to pursue our desired outcome. 

When we choose the Peacefire, we exercise a faith choice to pursue Jesus Christ. 

The Lord promises to provide His transforming peace when we bring our choices to Him.