Most of us admit to enjoying conversation while simultaneously hating confrontation.
When we break these two words down to their roots we realize that they come from the same place and have pretty much the same meaning.
Regardless of what we say, we tend to particpate more in confrontation than in conversation that is not small talk or agreeableness.
Simply put, conversations require much of us including an abundance of self-control (S1Ep11) Confrontations on the other hand require very little with virtually no self-control.
This series will compare and contrast confrontation vs conversations. We will look at not only the root of each word but our misconceptions about them and how a confrontation is simply a misunderstood conversation.
Communication experts, psychologist and our God all agree that when a confrontation is done right it will preserve relationships, bring people together, solve problems, and create emotional, relational, and spritual growth.
That sounds an awful like a conversation to me.
1 Thess 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up.
Gal 6:1
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But whatch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleneness, and self control.
Eph 5:33
However each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect the husband.
Matt 22:37-39
Jesus replied, "Love the Lord God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself."
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