Preventing Church Conflict: Promoting Church Growth

Faculty: Dr. Mary Kendall Hope (Profile)

This online course explores the skills and concepts needed to assist a pastor or evangelical leader prevent church conflict and promote church growth.  This course can further benefit the individual seeking practices that will meet the challenges of a current church conflict.

The congregational behavior patterns that lead to church conflict are explored with an emphasis on methods to both decrease destructive behavior and prevention methods for further conflict.  The five practices that lead to church growth (from Robert Schnase’s work – listed below) are explored as a holistic approach to the long-term prevention of church conflict.

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