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Many Ways to Respond to Conflict

Conflict = a difference within or between on or more people that is a problem for at least one of them.1

There are many ways you can respond in a conflict, not just one or two. See how many different ways you can find below. (Look forward, backward, vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.)

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LISILENCEIABEDF
ASTDUARGUEPQUGT
ETCALLOHIBRIIMO
PROBLEMISOLVEHP
GAMEPKUODPEKENL
ECPTTIHXALRRCUM
ATRAFLOBIEAARMS
BFORCECNAHCEYBO
TPMETALISTENRIB
IRIPUVSTYTBLOXD
UOSOBERGHEGARBL
QKEOTUGHAGSETTS
FRICUNDERSTANDT

1.   Which of the words above describe what the Bible characters did in these conflicts? Each passage will have at least five ways.

Abraham and Lot (Genesis 13):____________________________________________
Isaac and the wells (Genesis 26:12-31):__________________________________
Jesus in the garden (Mark 14:32-51):_____________________________________
Jesus on trial (Luke 23:1-12; John 18:19-24):____________________________
Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:36-40):_______________________________________
The Jerusalem conference (Acts 15:1-30):_________________________________

2.   On the back of this sheet, draw another conflict inthe Bible and list the ways people respond.

1  Lusas Eileen. (1991). Peace on the Playground: Non-Violent Ways of Problem Solving
Written by Anne Byler

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