Conflict Is an Opportunity

Ja'Vaun Johnson - 5/25/2025

In week four of the Relationship Replay series, College and Young Adult Pastor Ja'Vaun Johnson makes the bold case that conflict isn't a problem to avoid but an opportunity to embrace. Drawing from Proverbs 27:17, he uses the image of iron sharpening iron to argue that friction in relationships is what God uses to sharpen and strengthen us. He identifies four barriers that keep people from addressing conflict: pride, fear, anger, and assumptions. The message closes with a powerful invitation: if Jesus ran toward our greatest conflict — sin — instead of avoiding it, what's stopping us from doing the same?