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When church leadership faces divisive decisions about faith and social engagement

Our church leadership team is trying to decide whether to take a public stance on a social justice issue, and we're completely split—not just on the issue itself, but on whether a church should speak to these matters at all. The congregation is looking to us for guidance but we can barely have a civil conversation among ourselves, and I'm afraid our division is going to tear the whole community apart.

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Authority fractures when those called to guide have lost their shared vision of what guidance means.

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