Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts
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Overview
A Guide to Resolving Relational Conflict
You have conflict in your life—we all do. You encounter it in your home, your workplace, your school, or even your church. All around us tensions exist and disputes persist.
Offered here is a step-by-step process for pursuing peace in ALL your relationships and a tool you can use to help others. This guide is:
- BIBLICAL — relies on the absolute authority, sufficiency, and life-giving power of God’s Spirit-breathed Word
- CHRIST-CENTERED — depends on the forgiving and empowering grace of Jesus
- PRACTICAL — provides concrete action steps, case examples, discussion questions, and suggested language to handle specific situations
- PROVEN — offers tried and true methods from a pastor, professor, counselor, and certified Christian conciliator who has led couples, churches, and Christian schools to make peace for nearly thirty years
Packed with wisdom and practical techniques, here is a manageable book on reconciliation that will send you on your way to pursuing peace while helping others to do the same.
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- Provides a guide to resolving relational conflicts.
- Offers tried and true methods from a pastor, professor, counselor, and certified Christian conciliator.
- Invites to pursue peace while helping others to do the same.
- 1. Finding Hope in the God of Peace
- 2. A God’s-Eye View of Conflict
- 3. Keeping God Central: Pleasing Him amid Conflict
- 4. Getting to the Heart of Our Conflicts
- 5. Owning Our Sins before God Our Savior
- 6. Apologizing That Makes a Difference: Confessing Our Sins to Those We Have Offended
- 7. Cultivating Grace Attitudes: Putting on the Clothing of Christ
- 8. To Forgive or Not to Forgive: Forgiving on Two Levels
- 9. Battling Bitterness through the Gospel
- 10. Redeeming the Art of Rebuke and Granting Forgiveness: When and How to Confront and Forgive
- 11. Reconciliation in Action: Serving the Other Person
- 12. When Nothing Works: Loving Enemies and Those Who Act Like Them
Interpersonal conflict is a misery maker, stirring up chaos and the fog of war. Robert Jones carefully walks down the narrow road that makes peace and stirs up joy. His presentation is judicious, wide-ranging, balanced, biblical, and full of grace. Every counselor needs to know these things. Every struggler willing to take the time will benefit—and we are all strugglers in these matters. Speed-reading not allowed! Pursuing Peace needs to be slowly absorbed and would make a marvelous twelve-week study.
—David Powlison, Late Executive Director, Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation
Conflict comes in many shapes and sizes, so we need a variety of perspectives and insights into how to respond to it in biblically faithful ways. I am delighted that Robert Jones has brought his many years of pastoral and counseling experience to bear on this topic—providing a fresh perspective on how to approach conflict and estranged people in a grace-filled, gospel-centered way.
—Ken Sande, President, Relational Wisdom 360; author, The Peacemaker
In a day when ‘us and them’ seems to be the default presumption with which our society confronts culture, politics, and religion, Robert Jones has provided us a scripturally sound and pragmatic path to follow to experience the peace for which most of us have a God-given desire. While the book may find itself in the syllabus of many Christian counseling classes, it is equally at home in the school of practical theology. Rich with biblical references and connected to practical application, Pursuing Peace will be helpful specifically for those dealing with issues of conflict in any arena of life, and generally for all who wish to gain a clearer understanding of how to interact with others in God-pleasing ways. With uncanny insights and sharp clarity, Dr. Jones addresses and then makes sense of normal, everyday conflicts and how they should be handled so that full resolution might be experienced. This book is indeed a helpful contribution to the culture of our day.
—Thom S. Rainer, President and CEO, LifeWay Christian Resources
- Title: Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts
- Author: Robert D. Jones
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781433530135, 9781433530166, 1433530139, 1433530163
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433530166
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-09T19:13:57Z