Learning about forgiveness has been very useful to me in my job also. There were two families in our church who never got along. I can’t even remember what it was that started the conflict. Before taking the PEACE BRIDGES course I saw my role in relating to them very differently- just wanting to insure that they didn’t make other people uncomfortable because they didn’t like each other.
Now I see that I have a responsibility to ask them questions in order for them to reflect on their roles in the conflict. It took about a year to help them see things from the other family’s perspective but I never gave up trying. That is my job as their pastor.
-Male church co-pastor, C3
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