{"id":707,"date":"2019-06-10T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"a-bid-to-mediate-church-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-bid-to-mediate-church-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bid to Mediate Church Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very good article about mediating church conflicts was recently posted on mediate.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediate.com\/articles\/plenert-referring-church-conflict.cfm\">&#8220;Referring Church Conflicts to Mediation.&#8221;<\/a> The author, Wayne Plenert, uses the passage in Paul&#8217;s letter to the Philippians about the conflict between Euodia and Synteche to argue that there is a biblical basis for mediating church conflicts. In that passage (Philippians 4:2-3), Paul pleads with someone to help Euodia and Synteche resolve their conflict, noting that both of these women have labored with Paul in sharing the gospel. It&#8217;s the best example in the Christian Scriptures of mediation as an appropriate method for resolving conflicts. Mr. Plemert extracts some guiding principles for church leaders in addressing internal conflicts, providing a useful tool for any church member in a conflict with another (which is just about all of us, at some point or another!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good article about mediating church conflicts was recently posted on mediate.com, &#8220;Referring Church Conflicts to Mediation.&#8221; The author, Wayne Plenert, uses the passage in Paul&#8217;s letter to the Philippians about the conflict between Euodia and Synteche to argue that there is a biblical basis for mediating church conflicts. In that passage (Philippians 4:2-3), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediation","category-peacemaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}