Top Highlights

• I affirm the idea that when superior affection for Christ dominates a person’s heart, it will affect one’s entire life, including one’s relationships.
• when a person cultivates deep affections for Jesus, everything changes—use of money, time, internet browsing, and how one treats others.
• When a person wants to honor Jesus deeply, then he will take Jesus’ Word seriously, and “go and be reconciled” with his brother or sister (Matt. 5:24); when a person treasures the forgiveness of Jesus, she will seek to forgive “as the Lord has forgiven you” (Col. 3:13); when a person’s heart is melted by the gentleness of Jesus, then his natural im...
• To talk about the skills of conflict resolution but not focus on the heart will ultimately be a disappointing endeavor—especially in the long run. Alfred Poirier puts it like this: “Unresolved conflicts between Christians have less to do with people being skillful than with them being sinful.”1 Skills are important, but we must deal with our hearts...
• But if you will pursue forgiveness and reconciliation in your relationships, you will grow personally, you will help others grow, and you will be doing something that not only glorifies God, but powerfully embodies his great gospel to those who need to see it with their own eyes.