welcome and first thought

welcome everyone to this blog. i'm not promising anything special but you can expect honesty, candid thoughts, and my true feelings on what is going on in the world today. that being said, let me take a moment to wax poetic on what it means to conflict well. especially in the christian ministry world. where is this class in college or seminary? how are we taught to deliver bad news, or an opinion that is fundamentally different from those around us? is there a class or book that i and my father were supposed to attend and i was unable to go that day? in other words- why do we have so many christian men who are afraid to hurt other people's feelings? i don't say this with judgement, but with empathy. i myself am a recovering people pleaser. i think at some point we, as a society, but more importantly as christian men in leadership must decide that telling others only the good news in not only harmful to them, but to ourselves as well...