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In our Sunday School class, Faith Cafe, we have been studying how to deal with conflict. Conflict is all around us and we can’t avoid it…we can only learn how to deal with it in a healthy manner.

I want to post the notes from our class last night. Read through it. There is some very powerful stuff in there that will help you, whether you are having conflict in your marriage or avoiding someone at work.

(Ignore the page numbers, unless you have the book. This slideshow is worth it either way.)

Roy Bauer

I read an article this morning by Perry Noble, pastor of NewSpring Church in Anderson, titled 15 Ways to Destroy Your Marriage. I am posting part of it here but I recommend that you go to the article and read the rest of it.

#1 – Have an affair!  (II Samuel 11-12)

#2 – Refuse to run from tempting situations!  (Genesis 39:1-12, I Corinthians 6:18)

#3 – Look at LOTS of porn!  (Job 31:1)

#4 – Connect with “old flames” through online social networking and then convince yourself it is ok because you aren’t actually doing anything wrong!

#5 – Refuse to talk to your spouse about issues that make you angry…just bury them and let a huge pile build up so that you can explode irrationally on them when they totally do not expect it.  (Ephesians 4:25-27)

#6 – Have an affair!!!

#7 – Make sure you spend lots of person time with the same person of the opposite sex that you are not married to…and when confronted on it say, “It’s business.”

#8 – Make “innocent” remarks to an attractive person of the opposite sex such as, “I wish I had met you before I had gotten married.”

#9 – Put an ad for yourself on an internet dating site…even though you are married…just to see what type of interest you could create!

#10 – Compare your spouse with other people OFTEN and convince yourself that you didn’t get God’s best when you agreed to marry him/her.

#11 – Have an affair!!!

#12 – Take your cues about sexual morality from Hollywood and your “friends” rather than God’s Word.  (John 14:15)

#13 – Begin to believe that your spouse’s main mission on this planet should be to meet your needs…and when they don’t then justify trying to get your needs met elsewhere.

#14 – Fantasize often as to what it would be like to be with another person other than your spouse.

#15 – Be willing to sell out years of marriage, the respect of your children and your character for an orgasm.

Yesterday at CWOC was Missions Sunday; One Sunday a month where we remind people what God is doing Globally through CWOC and how they can become a part of it. I used several quotes from “famous” missionaries and was asked to get a copy of the PowerPoint that I used.

So I thought, why not just post the whole thing on the blog. And here it is:

Also, here are some great quotes from missionaries and/or preachers concerning missions:

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God” — William Carey

“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” — David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

“Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.” — Oswald J. Smith

“The reason some folks don’t believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn’t worth propagating.” – unknown

“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” — Mike Stachura

“If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.” — Pat Morley

“A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.” — Ted Engstrom, World Vision

“The Church must send or the church will end.” — Mendell Taylor

All quotes taken from a great Missions Website. http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/slogans.htm