We all meet situations in church life where people have been hurt through being at odds with another leader.
Perhaps it never happens in your set-up, but I seem to have run into it quite a lot recently. There are examples in youth and children’s work where there is conflict either within the team or in the youth ministries relationship with the church body. Why do we do this when at the heart of our ministry should be the love of Christ?
‘We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers’ (1 John 3.16) makes it not just desirable to love our brothers in Christ but a clear sign that we are no longer under condemnation but ‘made alive in Christ’. This, in other words, is how we should be, but we still have the ability to do each other damage.
