Equipping church leaders to address congregational conflict through an expository preaching class

Pete Sanchez

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Equipping church leaders to address congregational conflict through an expository preaching class

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Pete Sanchez. Equipping Church Leaders to Address Congregational Conflict Through an Expository Preaching Class. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b2d4339f-2450-4a4f-ae32-e747ec7fcfbd.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

P. Sanchez. Equipping church leaders to address congregational conflict through an expository preaching class. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b2d4339f-2450-4a4f-ae32-e747ec7fcfbd

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Pete Sanchez. Equipping Church Leaders to Address Congregational Conflict Through an Expository Preaching Class. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b2d4339f-2450-4a4f-ae32-e747ec7fcfbd.

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Pete Sanchez

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Abstract

This project offers a redemptive homiletic strategy for anticipating, addressing, and resolving congregational conflict. Confident in the preemptive power of biblical preaching, the project leader proposes that God's word, faithfully prepared and communicated, is essential to the continuing health of a church's spiritual immune system. The project thus argues for the strategic deployment of biblical texts that sensitize a congregation and her leaders to the inevitability of conflict while equipping them to address conflict redemptively in its early rather than later stages. The project thus proposes to train a new senior pastor and his key leaders in the homiletical skills essential to effective biblical preaching. During this project, the pastor and each leader-participant will be equipped to prepare and present one sermon to their congregation on the subject of biblical admonition, each developed from select biblical texts undergirding this project. Participants will also prepare a second sermon from the following areas of study: God's covenant nature, the priesthood of all believers, an organic view of the Church as community, the Holy Spirit's role in healthy community life, and the Lord's Supper as a strategic window into biblical forgiveness. These sermons further seek to encourage healthy theological reflection accompanied by practical obedience to the texts expressed in a corporate recommitment to the practice of restorative admonition. A church's response to the certainty of human failure within her ranks impacts the credibility of her witness to Christ's forgiveness with those outside the believing community. This proposal thus contends that God's Word faithfully proclaimed can create a local people of God willing to live accountably before the Lord and one another.

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