1. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc.

2. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand

3. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming Don't be selfish; don‘t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don't think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and in what they are doing. Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not demand or cling to his rights as God. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form. And in human form, he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal's death on a cross. Philippians 2:3-8(NLT)

4. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love

5. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! James 3:9-10 (NLT)

6. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love 3. Listen for the truth in love

7. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! James 3:9-10 (NLT)

8. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love 3. Listen for the truth in love 4.Move from the incidents to the issues

9. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT)

10. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love 3. Listen for the truth in love 4.Move from the incidents to the issues 5.Agree and disagree in love

11. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose. 1 Corinthians 1:10 (NLT)

12. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love 3. Listen for the truth in love 4.Move from the incidents to the issues 5.Agree and disagree in love 6.Forgive

13. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming Then Peter came to him and asked, "Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?" "No, not seven times," Jesus replied, "but seventy times seven!” Matthew 18: 21-22(NLT)

14. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming 1.Seek first to understand 2. Speak the truth in love 3. Listen for the truth in love 4.Move from the incidents to the issues 5.Agree and disagree in love 6.Forgive 7.Reconcile

15. Copyright © 2014 by Plowpoint, Inc. 7 Skills for Healthy Storming If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the fault. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back. But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses. If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. If the church decides you are right, but the other person won’t accept it, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector. I tell you the this: Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three gather together because they are mine, I am there among them. Matthew 18:15-20 (NLT)