kayre | Purpose Driven Life-- halfway!

Summary: It’s important to restore broken relationships, because God values relationships, and because broken fellowship is a “disgraceful testimony to unbelievers.” Peacemaking is neither avoiding conflict nor appeasement. Seven steps to reconciliation: pray first; take the initiative, regardless of your role in the conflict; try to sympathize with the other person; be honest about your part in the conflict; attack the problem, not the person; cooperate and compromise as much as possible; emphasize reconciliation, not resolution.

My thoughts: Honestly, this is a good chapter. What a shame it’s still sprinkled with tortured Bible references, and buried between the first 15 chapters of garbage. Maybe if the author omitted some of those, he could spend a chapter each on these seven points, instead of thinking that people can grasp them overnight.