In Real Life Books Fight Right A Christian Approach to Conflict Resolution

Exploring tough questions facing youth today • Also available as an eResource

OPEN THE BIBLE • Help youth apply the Bible to real life and discuss their faith. This all-in-one curriculum guides youth and their leaders on a journey for meaning and identity. In Real Life encourages youth to ask the hard questions, and helps them encounter Scripture in search of answers. In a time of violence, injustice, materialism, and new pressures, this series offers a different point of view. Compatible with a whole family approach.

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What is the best way to view and deal with conflict?

Even if it’s uncomfortable, even painful, conflict is a necessary part of the most loving, harmonious, and united relationships. It’s not something inherently bad or dangerous. The Bible is packed with records of conflicts, from Adam and Eve, to Abraham, to Moses, to the prophets, to Jesus, and particularly among early Christian communities. Today’s youth are learning to see conflict as a positive force for transformation, and this study can help them learn how to respond with skill and insight. It is through an appreciation of differences that we can bring life, excitement, and positive change to our relationships. (5 sessions, plus extender session)

Sessions:

1. Differences Make the Difference • Help participants challenge their negative assumptions about differences and open themselves to the positive effects of healthy conflict.
2. Truth and Love! Or Dare? • Help participants become aware of their own feelings about conflict, in order to free them to deal with conflict truthfully and lovingly.
3. Say What!? • Help participants learn specific skills for speaking and listening.
4. Send the Very Best: Yourself! • Help participants understand how reconciliation happens, and what they can do to help heal a broken relationship.
5. Be a Friend: Mediate! • Introduce participants to the principle of third party mediation.
6. Practical Mediation (Extender Session option) • Help participants better understand the practical application of the mediation process and gain more practice in third-party mediation.