Category Archives: Causes of Church Conflict

Child Abuse in the Church: Justice Can Be Grace

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Since I linked over to it in today’s post on my personal blog, I thought I would share this post with you too: Child Abuse in the Church: Justice Can Be Grace Not only is this an extraordinarily important topic … Continue reading →

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How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 5): Failure to Understand Basic Business and Finance Issues

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

This is Part 5 of a seven part series interacting with Dr. Thom Rainer’s research reported in his article The Top Seven Regrets of Pastors. Today’s focus is on the problems of the church being in the world—specifically, that a … Continue reading →

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How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 4): Family Time

Posted on February 15, 2013 by

[This is part 4 of a seven part series on How to Preserve Your Pastor. I have organized this series around Dr. Tom Ranier’s article: The Top Seven Regrets of Pastors, in which he interviews 22 seasoned pastors. The top regret of … Continue reading →

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How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 3): Failure to Exercise Faith

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

This is part 3 of a seven part series on How to Preserve Your Pastor. I have organized this series around Dr. Tom Ranier’s excellent article: The Top Seven Regrets of Pastors. The top regret of pastors has to do with the … Continue reading →

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How to Preserve Your Pastor (Part 1) — Lack of Practical Training for Local Church Ministry: The Problem of Misguided and Misstated Expectations

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

My three part series “How to Fire Your Pastor” sadly continues to remain the most frequently searched title that lands people on this website. I hope the title of this series will change that statistic! Recently, Dr. Thom Rainer, president … Continue reading →

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NEVER Allow Gossip Against Church Leaders

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

I put a post up at my personal blog today that I thought might have a little cross-appeal here at RedeemingChurchConflicts.com. It has to do with praying for our church leaders—but really, it has to do with so much more … Continue reading →

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In Church Conflict (as in War), The Malice of the Wicked is Reinforced by the Weakness of the Virtuous

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Over the holidays, I began reading Winston Churchill’s Memoirs of the Second World War (the abridged version not knowing if I would live long enough to read his entire six volume set!).  In one of the opening paragraphs Churchill writes … Continue reading →

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Res Ipsa Loquitur: Destructive Church Conflict Reveals Worldliness

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

A few weeks ago I wrote that the most frequently used search term that brings people to this site is “how to fire your pastor.” I lamented that fact because we desperately need God’s supernaturally gifted and theologically trained leaders … Continue reading →

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495 Years and a Lot of Conflict

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

This week marks the 495th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation. It was on October 31, 1517, that an Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany … Continue reading →

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Fighting Over the Sabbath

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Throughout the ages, Christian churches have fought over pretty much everything. Name a topic, and chances are, Christians have quarreled and fought over it. One recurring conflict particularly grieves us because it goes to the very heart of how we … Continue reading →

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