Editors Note: This article is written by BCC Counselor, Mark Johnson as part of our series on Pursuing Peace. In this series, our counselors are unpacking how to find peace in all areas of your life.
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”[1]
Conflict in families is as old as families themselves. Adam and Eve resorted to blame-shifting and finger-pointing just as soon as they sinned in Genesis 3. Genesis 4 goes on to describe how Cain killed Abel in a fit of brotherly jealousy. We don’t have to look very far in our own past to find instances where our family conflict gets the best of us. Unfortunately, family conflict comes quite naturally to us all.
We understand that we should love our neighbor as ourselves, but on occasion, we treat our family worse than how we treat our neighbors. James 2:8-9 calls us to account for how we behave, reminding us that we do well to “love your neighbor as yourself.” James continues, “but if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.”
First of all, the word partiality here means “favoritism,” the
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