Blessed are the peacemakers

Fractured Series - Building healthy relationships is one way we set the table for spiritual awakening, and respond to it

Allow Jesus to address what is broken, begin a process of repairing and healing, and then RE-FORM and TRANSFORM us with His life and power.

3 stages of healing a fracture:
1. Reactive
2. Reparative
3. Remodeling

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.

Blessing on peacemakers; Not peace-lovers or peacekeepers, not
even the same as being a peaceful person

Because avoiding all conflict will ultimately produce the opposite of peace.

3 ways to be a peacemaker

1. Face your internal issues and deal with them

Learn first NOT to speak if you want to be a peacemaker
Martin Lloyd-Jones

2. Face relationship issues and deal with them

2. Face relationship issues and deal with them

3. Facilitate peace between people who have broken relationship

Die when I may, I would like it to be said of me, that I always pulled up a
weed and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

What if one person doesn’t want peace or won’t face their issues?