What Would You Do to Stay On the Bridge?
By Fred Oduyoye and Rick Lawrence
All relationships have seasons of tension—and sometimes discord and division. In church ministry and pastoring relational tension comes with the territory. Shepherding would be easy if the sheep behaved themselves and got along. But that’s not reality. And when tension or discord surfaces (or explodes), how do we stay in the relationship without compromising so much that we allow festering problems to grow and take over? How do we stay on the bridge of relationship long enough to move toward restoration?
In this Reachable Reconciliation conversation, Fred tells the story of a private relational tension that surfaced into a public (and awkward) encounter—and he shares about how reflection always precedes real repair in relationships…
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