Varying degrees of conflict
Conflict is inevitable. The best of friends can disagree. You can measure the impact of conflict on a scale ranging from the least impactful to the dissolution of relationships. The least impactful conflicts can center on divides on sports teams, the best vacation spots, which make of truck is the best. Those inconsequential conflicts create banter that has little impact on relationships. The other end of conflict spectrum are those issues that lend to friendships dissolving, divorce and, as we have seen in recent headlines, countries recalling their ambassadors. I contend, though, that not all conflict is destructive. Nor is God out of the picture when conflict occurs. A conflict initiated as a tool of the enemy may be the avenue by which God brings about his purposes.