LESSON INTRODUCTION
Today we are examining strategies for dealing with a difficult partner and handling challenging relationships. We would be emphasizing on the importance of emotional control and healthy conflict resolution, even when responding to unfair personal attacks or character misrepresentations in your relationships.
We would be learning on how to manage our relationship and improve communication, even with difficult people, while maintaining a positive self-worth, especially when your partner is signaling otherwise.
Lesson Discussion
Brainstorm:
- When a person makes a mistake, what is the difference between condemning and correcting the person?
- What is the meaning of calling a person an Angel or Satan?
Lesson Text: Zechariah 3:1-5: Matthew 5:23-26
- Read Matthew 6:22-23. What is the difference between “making a mistake” and “Being a mistake”?
- When your partner makes a mistake, what is the impact on your partner, when you focus on the mistake made, versus, when you focus on your partner that made the mistake?
- Based on the responses above, what do they say about you?
Last call
- With what we have explored today, what would you advice us to do differently when handling challenges in our intimate relationship?
If we accept things without Critical thinking without question or without evidence we are not only ignorant we are immoral.
