Helpful Quotes: Conflict, Community, Truth and Love
I have heard some helpful quotes this week and thought I'd share a few of them with you.
"In conflict, our hearts come to the surface."
"Authentic community is not the absence of conflict and relational funkiness. Authentic community is the result of living out the gospel in the midst of and through conflict and relational funkiness. Authentic community takes place as we learn to repent deeply and forgive completely."
"Hard circumstances do not create character; hard circumstances reveal character." Okay, circumstances do play a major part in the sanctification process. The idea is that how we react to our circumstances reveals where we are in the process and what the functional gospel of our lives is. It often shows us that we have a great opportunity to have the gospel become more of a living reality in our lives than it presently is.
"How we say something is as important as what we say." Thanks to Andy Woznicki for that one. In other words, as Paul said, speak the truth in love.
Andy claims to have heard the following equations at Campus Outreach training or something. I think he made it up himself and is just being humble. :)
- Truth - love —> destroys
- Love - truth —> deceives
- Truth + love —> develops / encourages / builds up
That'll preach. After all, it's the gospel.
- Truth = I am more sinful that I would ever dare to admit.
- Love = I am more forgiven and accepted than I could ever dare to dream.




