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In the last episode we ended with the question "who gains by Christians living substandard to God's way?" and "who gains from permanently separating the repentant sibling from our communities?" In part one of the healthy conflict resolution within community episode Stephanie is joined by Marci. They look at what unhealthy conflict looks like in comparison to healthy conflict. Throughout the episode they discuss what the end goal of healthy conflict is. The episode is wrapped up with the discussion about bringing Holy Spirit into the conflict and actively listening to truly hear the other person.

In this episode we talk about Paul's direction in 1 Corinthians 5 to kick someone out of community turning them over to Satan for a time for the destruction of their flesh. We discuss what it means to repent and take our thoughts captive in order to change the way we live. Do we kick the person out after one offense? At what point do we kick them out of community and send them away? When an individual is sent out of spiritual community they are removed from the protective covering that is part of the community. The story of…

To judge or not to judge, that is the question. In this episode Cam and Stephanie Harris talk about whether or not we are to judge.  Looking at the scripture 1 Corinthians 5 about the man who was sleeping with his fathers wife and the response of the fellowship.  The apostle Paul's taught about how to deal with someone who is in your spiritual community and being unrepentant.   He talks about not being present and passing judgement on it.We delve into the improper teaching that is in many churches that we are not to judge.  We in fact are…

In this episode Stephanie makes the statement that "the everybody wins ideology has no ground". We talk about this quote from Dr Stuart Anderson that is found in the End of Churchianity film:"The church has adjusted our theological stances to follow after the changes in society. The church wanted to be included and so we have constantly incrementally changed our stance on a whole range of social values and issues. But the end result of that has been that well we might be socially included we are now spiritually excluded. That we are socially relevant but spiritually irrelevant."God has set the standard…

In this episode Cam and Stephanie discuss pseudo community and talk about what concessions are usually made to have pseudo community? When we live in denial and put a mask on to be accepted then we believe that we have to continually live in a false identity to be accepted. To truly live as an authentic person we need to risk being truly known by others in a safe community. When each person lives this way it will lead to authentic community. Looking at the 12 disciples we consider their relationships with each other. If Peter was part of a…