APPLYING WHAT YOU LEARNED: ASSIGNMENT #3 - Breaking Down Conflict (Part 2) At some stage during your day, you will face conflict with your spouse. Using the three implications from Session 3, review your own heart and why you started or entered into conflict. 1. The DNA of sin is selfishness: Sin is all about selfishness of the sinner - their wants, their desires, and their self-described needs. How did this conflict reveal the selfishness of your heart? What desires were you chasing after, what did you want, or what did you tell yourself you needed?
2. Sin is anti-social in its fundamental form: We were created to live an outward and an upward life; upward in worship to God and outward in self-sacrificing love toward a neighbor or spouse. Sin does the opposite. How did this conflict reveal your love for you? In your quest to get what you wanted, did you forget that you were in relationship with other people? How did your words and actions affect them?
3. Sin will cause you to dehumanize the other person in your marriage: In our quest to get what we want, we will reduce the other person to a vehicle or obstacle. They either help us get what we want or get in the way of what we desire. How did you try to use the other person to get what you wanted? If they interfered with your plans, how did you respond to them?
PERSONAL REFLECTION: When I look back at those three things that I listed in the Opening Discussion, am I at risk of turning them into idols? How can I view my spouse - or anyone in my life - more as a person to be loved instead of a vehicle or object to be used? What can motivate me to love others more? (HINT: remembering God’s love and grace for me - 1 John 4:19)
Supplemental Reading: WDYE Chapters 6-8 Philippians 2:1-15
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