Imagine how many more friendships there would be in the church if we were trained how and willing to, do conflict. If we didn’t drive away those who expressed dissent and who don’t think like us.

Or imagine how much more rich and deep our friendships would become if we could disagree without offense. We wouldn’t need to keep things so shallow and surface level. Loyalty would not need to be such a big deal. Imagine if conflict made us closer rather than separating us.

I have so many thoughts and dreams for the church, I know many others have the same. Yet many of them lie behind a wall of conflict mist are scared to engage in.