Week 1: Glorify God

COLOSSIANS 3:1-171

Week 1: Glorify God

COLOSSIANS 3:1-172

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Why Are We Doing This Again?1. We don’t usually learn

something well by being told just once.

2. We deal with conflict regularly and it has a the potential to cause a lot of problems

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3 Different Perspectives on Conflict

1. Escape Responses: It’s too risky; we fear being hurt.

2. Attack Responses: Attack it head on even if it hurts.

3. See Conflict as an Opportunity

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Conflict as an Opportunity1. A mindset focused on

Christ puts aside attack responses.

2. A mindset focused on Christ puts aside escape responses.

3. A mindset focused on Christ sees conflict as an opportunity to be glorify God by being compassionate like Him.

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1 Peter 2:19-21“This is a gracious thing [in God’s sight], when mindful of God one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. If you when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in God’s sight!”