Conflict is the last thing anyone wants from their "church experience." After all, we go to church to feel better, to get a little uplift to face the week, right? It's the one place where we don't have to deal with the typical human foibles of self-interest, pettiness, passive-aggression...right? I mean, sure, we may have minor disagreements, but the unspoken rule is that they remain unspoken!: "I promise not to mention what I can't stand about you and there is nothing not-standable about me...
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