{"id":8684,"date":"2023-10-13T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"conflict-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8684","title":{"rendered":"CONFLICT TRAINING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent the day at a conference about dealing with church conflict, hosted by the American Baptists.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231012_090705-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was fortunate among the small crowd of pastors present in that I had the luxury of soaking in the information without having an immediate practical use for it. Currently, all is well in Sardinia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did nod my head quite a bit throughout the day in recognition of Truth &#8211; the teaching was provided by The Colossian Forum, a nonprofit ministry out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their overall premise is that conflict can be transformed into opportunities for spiritual growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where were they three years ago when Melissa and I &#8211; and Cap Haitien Christian School &#8211; needed them??<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I would love to write more about the training, but I am still fighting a sinus infection AND I woke up at 3:00 am and couldn&#8217;t fall back to sleep! I barely survived the day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day at a conference about dealing with church conflict, hosted by the American Baptists. I was fortunate among the small crowd of pastors present in that I had the luxury of soaking in the information without having an immediate practical use for it. Currently, all is well in Sardinia.\u00a0 I did nod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}