Contentment Conflict (7 of 8)
Series: Boundless
Craig Smith
Mark 3:24-25
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. Really glad to have you with us today. We are rounding third base and heading for home in our Boundless series where we've been working our way through the book of Philippians to discover the secret to living bigger than our circumstances or, as Paul the author of Philippians puts it, the secret to being content in any and every situation..
Today, we're going to tackle one of the biggest contentment killers: conflict. It's hard to be content when you're in conflict. Let's do a quick little exercise. I'm going to name three kinds of relationship-areas in our lives and I'd like you to:
- Rate your contentment in each area on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being ''totally miserable'' and 10 being ''completely content''. Here are the areas: your family. Your friends. Your work or your school.
- Now I want you to look at each of those three areas again and rate the amount of conflict you have in each area, from 1 to 10, 1 being ''perfect peace'' and 10 being ''constant conflict''.
Here's what I think you'll probably find: there's an inverse relationship between the amount of contentment you feel in that area of your life and the amount of conflict you have in that area. So the more conflict you have the less contentment you feel. Conflict is a contentment killer.
Conflict is also a mission killer. It's very hard to be on mission together with a group of people when you're in conflict with some of them. Because conflict has a way of overshadowing everything else...and over time, unresolved conflict leads to division. And this is what Jesus said about division:
If a kingdom is divided aga` ```````````inst itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. (Mark 3:24-25)
Now there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that conflict is inevitable. Every couple, every group of friends, ...
Series: Boundless
Craig Smith
Mark 3:24-25
I. Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. Really glad to have you with us today. We are rounding third base and heading for home in our Boundless series where we've been working our way through the book of Philippians to discover the secret to living bigger than our circumstances or, as Paul the author of Philippians puts it, the secret to being content in any and every situation..
Today, we're going to tackle one of the biggest contentment killers: conflict. It's hard to be content when you're in conflict. Let's do a quick little exercise. I'm going to name three kinds of relationship-areas in our lives and I'd like you to:
- Rate your contentment in each area on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being ''totally miserable'' and 10 being ''completely content''. Here are the areas: your family. Your friends. Your work or your school.
- Now I want you to look at each of those three areas again and rate the amount of conflict you have in each area, from 1 to 10, 1 being ''perfect peace'' and 10 being ''constant conflict''.
Here's what I think you'll probably find: there's an inverse relationship between the amount of contentment you feel in that area of your life and the amount of conflict you have in that area. So the more conflict you have the less contentment you feel. Conflict is a contentment killer.
Conflict is also a mission killer. It's very hard to be on mission together with a group of people when you're in conflict with some of them. Because conflict has a way of overshadowing everything else...and over time, unresolved conflict leads to division. And this is what Jesus said about division:
If a kingdom is divided aga` ```````````inst itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. (Mark 3:24-25)
Now there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that conflict is inevitable. Every couple, every group of friends, ...
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