Healing a Divided Church

Healing a Divided Church

The past few years have tested the unity of even the healthiest churches. The deep political polarization tearing apart our culture has crept into the church.

I’ve seen it in my own context. We had one family leave over our church’s decision to require masks during the height of the pandemic. “You’re bowing to tyranny of big government,” they told our pastors. Another family left disappointed that our church did not publicly support the BLM movement, even though we repeatedly addressed issues of racial justice and reconciliation.

We’re not the only church facing such challenges. How can we respond to these divisions? Sometimes, there’s not much you can do. As with the families who left our church, sometimes the divides are too deep. But often our differences can be worked through.

Unity in Diversity is a resource to help your church do just that. Here a group of seasoned church leaders will show you how welcome people of different family structures, economic conditions, ages, races, educations, and religious backgrounds. Of course, you can’t have true unity without working through disagreements well. Our Handling Conflict assessment will equip your team to prevent conflict when possible, work through conflict when it occurs.