study would be: A healthy church embraces and employs Wesleyan spiritual practices towards nurturing a healthy family system. The scope of the project would include the presentation, explanation and implementation of a wide variety of spiritual disciplines. The church people would be encouraged to engage in a variety of spiritual disciplines towards developing a rule of life. A church wide strategy for dealing with conflict would be developed and implemented. Conflict would be presented as a natural part of human relationships and does not need to be avoided but rather intentionally and constructively embraced. Christian Conferencing would be presented and practiced as a mode of developing a church wide strategy for dealing with conflict and as a means of ongoing conflict resolution. The biblical principles taught by Jesus in Matthew 18, informs the spiritual discipline of Christian Conferencing and would be the foundation for the church wide strategy. Specifically in Mathew 18 Jesus taught a three-phased approach to conflict resolution; one on one conferencing, two or three on one conferencing, large group on one conferencing. The large group would be a leadership team representing the whole church. Christian Conferencing would be presented in two forms: one as a whole church discussion format that focused on an idea, doctrine or missional vision topic, secondly as a peace making strategy to resolve conflict in relationships. One of the major goals of the study would be to create an attitude of acceptance for differences of opinion and to encourage acceptance of a group decision accomplished through Christian Conferencing. Another future possible project extends the PSDL into the context of the dysfunctional church. The PSDL offers a valuable perspective towards the dysfunctional church. Christian
study would be: A healthy church embraces and employs Wesleyan spiritual practices towards nurturing a healthy family system. The scope of the project would include the presentation, explanation and implementation of a wide variety of spiritual disciplines. The church people would be encouraged to engage in a variety of spiritual disciplines towards developing a rule of life. A church wide strategy for dealing with conflict would be developed and implemented. Conflict would be presented as a natural part of human relationships and does not need to be avoided but rather intentionally and constructively embraced. Christian Conferencing would be presented and practiced as a mode of developing a church wide strategy for dealing with conflict and as a means of ongoing conflict resolution. The biblical principles taught by Jesus in Matthew 18, informs the spiritual discipline of Christian Conferencing and would be the foundation for the church wide strategy. Specifically in Mathew 18 Jesus taught a three-phased approach to conflict resolution; one on one conferencing, two or three on one conferencing, large group on one conferencing. The large group would be a leadership team representing the whole church. Christian Conferencing would be presented in two forms: one as a whole church discussion format that focused on an idea, doctrine or missional vision topic, secondly as a peace making strategy to resolve conflict in relationships. One of the major goals of the study would be to create an attitude of acceptance for differences of opinion and to encourage acceptance of a group decision accomplished through Christian Conferencing. Another future possible project extends the PSDL into the context of the dysfunctional church. The PSDL offers a valuable perspective towards the dysfunctional church. Christian
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