Life.Church with Craig Groeschel - When You’re Connected to Everyone but Close to No One

Episode Date: July 26, 2026

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Today we're talking about conflict, and I'll tell you about a fight that I had with Amy recently. We got going. And in the middle of the fight, Amy approached me slowly, crawling on her hands and knees and said, get out from under that bed, you coward and fight like a man. Now, that didn't really happen. That was a joke. and I am joking about that story, but I'm not joking about the fact that Amy's got game.

When a fight goes on, don't let that sweet little cute face fool you. We all know who the tough one is in the family, and it's not Pastor Craig. She can hold her own. Of course, I'm joking about that, but we do fight, believe or not, like normal people. When you become a pastor, you're a normal people.

It's a pastor. And so we do fight. In fact, raise your hands if you've ever gotten in a fight with someone you love, anybody, your boyfriend, girlfriend, roommate, raise them up, leave them up, leave them up, leave them up. Now, put him down, put him back up if you got in a fight over something really dumb, really dumb. God bless you. I see those hands. You can be saved too, right? You're not alone. Everybody fights. All couples fight. The question isn't whether you fight or not. The question really is, how do you fight when you have conflict? There's a question. There's a question. difference between healthy couples and unhealthy couples in the way they work through things. Healthy couples fight clean and unhealthy couples, you've probably seen it before, not in your relationship, but you've maybe seen it on TV, they fight dirty. Healthy couples work toward resolution, but unhealthy couples tend to press for victory. And there is a problem, although that may feel right, but when you press for victory in marriage, it is not good. And the reason it's not good is because whenever

One spouse wins, both lose. The moment you try to win and you think you do, you're actually hurting your marriage if one of you loses. And Paul knew this, and that's the very reason why he said, and for other reasons, he said this in Ephesians 426, he said, in your anger, do not sin. He didn't say you're not going to be angry, but when you do get angry because you're human,

in your anger, do not sin. Then he said, do not let the sun go down while you're still angry. And he said, do not give the devil a foothold. And your anger, don't sin. Don't let the sun go down while you're still angry. Don't give the devil a foothold. He didn't just say, don't be angry because you will be angry. He said, don't sin when you're angry.

Because anger isn't the problem, but what you do with it can become the problem. And some of you know exactly what I'm talking about, because in your relationship, it could be with your spouse, it could be with a family member, it could be with a friend. There's something that you need to deal with, and you haven't dealt with it. Maybe you've known for days there's an issue that's unresolved. For some of you, it's been for weeks. A lot of times in marriages, there's a problem, but there's so much going on. We know we need to address a problem, but the timing never feels right. You might feel like you're two. tired or you're too busy, or you just want to wait until things finally settle down.

Spoiler alert, things never settle down. You know this, right? And the longer you wait, the harder it gets to address. And the harder it gets, the easier it is to keep ignoring it. And the longer the problem sits, the more it costs you in your relationship. And so Paul says this. He said, in your anger, do not sin. And then he says, don't let the sun go down on your anger. Address the problem now. Amy lives by this rule. She will not let us go to sleep when we are mad. There are times when we don't sleep until Thursday, but we're going to work through it. And the reason, and she's actually wise for this, is if you stay angry, you give what Paul calls you give the devil a foothold. Now, if the Greek, the word translated as foothold is the word topos.

We get our word topography from this. In other words, you're not given the devil with a passing feeling. You're actually giving the devil a place in your marriage. You're giving the devil territory. And when you leave a conflict unresolved, you're not just staying. angry, but you're literally letting the devil put his foot in the door and give an address to your spiritual enemy. And what happens is the devil doesn't just say, okay, I'm going to give you back peace in your marriage. You actually have to take it back from your spiritual enemy. And what's crazy

is, I was joking earlier, it's not just the big things. In fact, I don't know if we've ever really fought over a big thing. We specialize in finding. fighting over really, really dumb things. In fact, one of the most serious fights, no joke, that we ever had in our marriage was in the early years, we fought over pancakes. Pancakes. And to summarize it in all objectivity,

meaning this is just, I'm just telling you like it is. Amy makes pancakes the wrong way. I'm just saying, it's a thing. It really is. It just is. And some of you can affirm this with arousing amen to just affirm the right. She makes them fluffy, like grilled dough balls, okay? If a pancake doubles as a pillow, it's not a pancake.

Everyone knows God's way is more thin, there's a lot of butter on it. And so I was trying to honor God making pancakes the right way. and my godly wife who weighs 80 pounds less than I do came up to me and said move i'm making pancakes and she said move and as a godly man i said no and so she put her shoulder down like a football player and she physically knocked me out of the way and said something like you do what you're told in my kitchen. Not exactly that I'm still. That's what I heard. That's what I felt.

And it was on. The good news is, 30 some odd years later, we don't eat pancakes anymore. solve that problem right there. So you devil. And I laugh about it, but some of the biggest fights we've had are over some of the smallest and most insignificant things. And that's what we have to remember. We are all going to struggle. And it's not if you fight, but it's how you fight. And God's word teaches us how to fight. What's interesting is there's a guy who's kind of an expert on this. His name is Dr. John Gottman. He's one of the most well-known marriage, researchers of the day, and he studied thousands of couples, and he watches how they fight.

And he says he can watch a couple fight for five minutes and predict with about a 90% accuracy whether that couple's marriage will make it or if they'll end with a divorce. And the way he determines it, not if they fight, but how they fight. And based on this research, he's found four patterns that show up again and again and again, and marriages that are heading for trouble does not mean they're going to end up in trouble, but they're heading for trouble that you can cut off these four,

he calls them four horsemen, but there's four things to watch out for. You might see these things in your relationship, and the good news is you can address them now. Don't let the sun go down on your anger, and your anger don't sin. The four predictors of relational failure, he shows us they are these.

The first one is criticism. The second one is contempt. The third one is defensiveness. And the fourth one he calls stonewalling. Let's talk about them briefly one by one. And then we'll let God's words speak to them. The first one is criticism. This isn't just like a complaint.

It's more going after character than action. It attacks the character. There's a different. A complaint says like, you didn't take out the trash. Criticism says, you didn't take out the trash because you're selfish and you never do anything right. Same trash, different fight. One is about the issue, and you're going to have those. The other is about the person, and it moves from just an issue to a complaint and character.

We watch for that. The second one is contempt. And contempt, honestly, he says, is the most dangerous one of the four. This is when you just really don't like the person very much. You roll your eyes. You're always sarcastic. You're mocking them. Nice job, genius.

The moment you look at your spouse and you think, I don't like you, I can't stand you. This is contempt. And if this is where you are or your spouse says, this sermon, 30-minute talk is not going to solve the problem. You're going to want to step aside. You're going to want to seek help, talk to your pastor, talk to a counselor, bring your group into it. If you're moving there, it does not mean it's over.

It means you need help more than a sermon. But we're going to let God's word speak and may stir something in you. The first is criticism. The second is contempt. The third issue is defensiveness. It's not me. It's all your fault. You know the drill. Something happens. You say something like, well, that hurts me. Well, you did it first.

This is when you always refuse to take responsibility. There's always an excuse for something, and it's not my fault. It's always yours. Defensiveness. And then the fourth one is stonewalling. And this is where you just tune the other person out. You shut down. You shut them out. And it's not like you're trying to keep the peace. There might be a time when emotions are high that you actually, the wise thing is to, well, away, take a breather, and come back engaged. This is not that. This is walking away and staying away. It's a different thing. And unfortunately, research shows that men do this more frequently. And unfortunately, I may be proof of that. This is kind of my go-to. Amy said something recently that I interpreted it to be a little critical, and so I just went quiet. Not the regular quiet that like, hope you notice that I'm being quiet.

And the whole time, this is how dumb I am. This is how dumb. If you're like going, if you ever think, I wish my husband were like, my husband were like Pastor Craig. No, you don't. You don't. This is how dumb I am. I'm sitting there thinking like, this will teach her.

This will teach her. Like teacher what? She's married to a nine-year-old? Like, what are you going to go, Pastor Craig? There's a godly thing. This is not godliness. But yet, that's my go-to. sometimes, I'm going to shut down and shut her out. That's not honoring God. Now, if you're dating

someone right now, I want to give you some things to watch for. Watch for these four different things. What are we talking about? Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. If you're dating someone and you feel like obsessed with them and you just really love them, but you feel tension, it's not bad if you get in a fight when you're dating someone because you actually see, do we have the tools to work through things? You're asking yourself, do they fight fair and do you know how to fight fair? If they are always criticizing you,

not what you do, but criticizing you, attacking your character, not talking about an issue, but talking about who you are, you want to pay attention to that. That is a significant red flag. If there is contempt, you're dating, they're rolling your eyes,

they're dismissing you, they're mocking you, just walk on away. Just goodbye, good luck, see you, and run for us. run, okay, if they're doing that. That's not moving toward anything healthy. If they're always defensive, you know, and never take responsibility, never own anything, never apologize. If everything's your fault and they never own anything, that's something to pay attention to. And then stonewalling is the same thing. If they're consistently shutting down, don't have the

ability to work through things, go silent, disappear for days, ghost you, and then act like everything's okay. That's not okay. You want to watch for these things. They don't generally get better with a ring, they generally get worse unless the Spirit of God intervenes along the way. So if you're married or you're dating, we have the same spiritual enemy who wants to divide what God joins together. He wants to take territory from the people of God into the forces of darkness. And so every time we fall into one of these temptation traps, we're given the enemy a little territory. Every time you criticize, every time you roll your eyes, every time you shut your spouse, out to give in the devil a little territory. And these behaviors, they don't kill a marriage

overnight. Little by little, little, little by little, you give the forces of darkness more territory into your relationship. And if that's what you've done, you've got to take it back. You've got to take it back. And the good news is you have more power on your side. Greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. And so you just take back what belongs to God And he used the power of his word to say, devil, you can't divide what God joined together. And the good news is God's word gives us really specific insight as to how we work through conflict. James tells us this. He tells us in James 119.

He says, everyone should be quick to listen and slow to speak. It's funny how we're actually often the opposite, right? We're slow to listen, quick to speak. No, the Bible says we should be quick to listen and slow to speak and slow to become angry. Quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. Because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to become angry because human anger doesn't produce the righteousness that God desires.

If you find yourself tempted to be critical, you're criticizing your spouse. If you're criticizing your roommate, your friends all the time, we tend to often criticize when we have a weak self-esteem. Be careful for that. If you find yourself critical and you're about to say something that you know could be hurtful, ask yourself two questions. And I do this a lot now. If there is an area that I've grown, it's that I'm listening more and I'm speaking less. Two questions I'm going to ask, and I'm honest to do this quite a bit,

is I ask myself, should it be said and should it be said now? Question number one is like, should it be said? There's a lot of times where I've got to come back, I've got a something, I want to say it, but it's actually not helpful,

it's not honoring, it's out of the flesh, not by the spirit, so it shouldn't be said. Ask yourself, should I even say this? And if you should, should, should it be now? Because some conversations do need to happen, but not at 11.30 p.m., not in the car,

and not in front of the kids. Somebody could say amen based on experience if you want to. And I'll give you just a little bit of kind of conversational nevers, some rules in the relationship of things that you should never say. First of all, you're in a heated exchange. Never call names. Don't call names. That's immature, that's hurtful, that's not God honoring. Never call names. Secondly, never get historical. Not hysterical. Don't do that either, but don't get historical. Just tell yourself this. What happened in 2014 stays in 2014. Love keeps no records of wrongs. That's in the Bible. Love keeps no records of wrong. Never called names. Never get historical. Never threatened divorce. The moment you bring the D word into it, you're saying, devil, come on him. We said till death to us part, and we're

going to do everything we can within our power to follow God's word, God's way. We're not going to threaten that. We're going to work toward resolution. We're not trying to scare somebody into doing the wrong thing. And the most important, let me go over these again, never call names, never get historical, never threaten divorce. The most important thing, and you have to live by this, is never quote your pastor in a fight. Do not do that. Do not do that. That's somewhere in the Old Testament. I promise is there. You can look it up. It's there. Amy tried that once. It doesn't work. It doesn't help. It doesn't hurt. I confirm. Pastor Craig, I've heard a pastor say this before. Don't say that. That's not helpful. Now, if you find yourself right now a little bit uneasy here in this message

and you're starting to push back and you're getting defensive and maybe you're like getting mad at me. I don't like this message. I don't like. I never liked that guy anyway. Fair enough. A lot of people don't. Maybe it's valid, but maybe it's a sign that you actually need to humble yourself and listen. Not to me, but listen to a voice that's so much more powerful than mine. What I've found is whenever I'm defensive, that's what I need to humble myself and listen and be quick to listen. One of the things that I've worked on very prayerfully is I've asked God, make me a better listener. Because I have this unbelievable way when Amy's talking,

I can actually be paying attention and also not even be there. It's the weirdest thing. I can be even listening and she can say, what did I just say? And I can repeat it back to her, and I'm still working on something else, even though I'm like kind of there and I'm kind of not there.

And it's just crazy how good I am at that. It's like a spiritual curse. I was going to say gift, but it's not. And so what I'll do is I like just pause, put down everything, and I listen. And what's helpful is when we're working through conflict is a lot of times she's hurt over something that I had no idea. In my mind, it all made sense, and I was logical, and I can, like, defend everything with three points, and even I can put it on the screen and tell you why it makes sense.

But she didn't care about that. What she wants to know is that I actually understand how she feels and why she would feel that way. And when I can get to that point, we have often really moments of healing and breakthrough. I'll say, oh, man, I didn't mean to make you feel that way. And I can see why when I said that it made you feel that way. And I don't even have to say, like, I agree. I don't even have to say you're right. It's just like I genuinely understand how it could have made you feel this way.

And there's healing. so it's quick to listen. Slow to speak. Slow to become angry. Because human anger doesn't produce the righteousness that God desires. So, if you find yourself in a place where your relationship isn't what you hoped it would be,

and you know it's not what God would want it to be, there's really good news that it doesn't have to stay that way. It doesn't have to stay that way. way. If there are two people, and it does take two, if there are two people willing to humble themselves, submit to one another in love, the power of God, he specializes in healing broken relationships. And so I want to just slow it down and just acknowledge, we've covered a lot of ground. And what I know is I'm speaking into a lot of different relationships. And I can't do it all. So I need to help with the Spirit of God to go in and take things just the way that you need. And I know, you need. And I'm speaking into a lot of different relationships. And I can't do it all. So I need to help. I need to help with the spirit of God to go in, just the way

that you need to hear it. Because some of you, you're trying all of it. And like you genuinely, you're in, and you're praying, and you're trying to fight fair, and you're trying to listen, and you're trying to have empathy, and you're still struggling, and you're still carrying a burden. There is a difference between resolving conflict and releasing a hurt.

There will be those of you here that your hurdle is a hurt that is still unforgiven. He said, or he did, or he didn't, or she told you, and then she wasn't, or there was a look or too many looks, or a lie, or a betrayal, or a misleading, or an addiction you didn't know about, or an emotional relationship, or an addiction, or a habit, or overspending, or just leading you to believe when it wasn't there. and it hurts and it hurts deeply. And you're not alone in that.

We've all hurt each other. And when I'm going to tell you that God's word says, there is a way that we as followers of Jesus handle it, some of you aren't like what his word says. His word teaches us as followers of Jesus that we forgive as we've been forgiven. Forgive those who hurt us. And some are going to say,

it's easy for you to say because you're not in my situation. And you have no one. Why do you? How bad the person I'm married to? If you knew him, Pastor Craig, you break out your jihis, and you lay holy hands on him in the name of the holy ghost father, son, and Holy Spirit, and you cast a demon out of him. Maybe, maybe. And I don't know who you're married to, and I don't know what he did, I don't know what she did, I don't know what he's doing right now. And there's a lot of complications out there, and I acknowledge them all. And some things are way above my pay grade and need professional help and need something only God can do. But I will

tell you what God's word says. He knows what you've been through. He sees it all, and he tells us all as followers of Jesus that we are to forgive. Doesn't mean if you open the door back up and take abuse, it's not what forgive means. Doesn't mean that you roll over in your dormant. That's not what forgive means. But scripture tells us this in Colossians 313, bear with each other, and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. How in the world do you do that when you've been hurt so deeply? Scripture goes on to say, forgive as the Lord forgave you. Like, how do I forgive something that's so unforgivable?

You forgive as the Lord forgave you. You don't forgive because they deserve it. You forgive because you were forgiven when you didn't deserve it. And again, I just want to be really clear. Forgiveness is not saying what they did is okay. And forgiveness is not waiting until you feel like forgiving. Forgiveness is actually a decision long before it's an emotion. It's a decision.

As I've been forgiven, I choose, even if I don't feel it, even if I don't want to, choose to forgive. It is choosing to forgive and release the debt even when you have every right to hold on to it. It's canceling someone else's sin debt because yours was canceled first. And it's not giving them a pass. It's taken back the territory that the devil is trying to steal. It is God honoring. It is not easy. But that's what we're called to do. And so, you you wake up one day and you realize like the most Christ-like thing you may ever do is not win an argument, but it's not to go to bed when you're mad. Say like, I love you too much to let this go.

So we'll stay up and we'll work through it and we'll pray through it. And yeah, we're mad and you said, no, I didn't, we didn't and that, whatever. And no, you can't. Now we're not glad. And so what are we going to do? Well, here's why I feel this way. And here's, and we work through it. Oh, I see it.

And oh. And then the mature one says, let me apologize where I got it wrong. And you go first because Jesus went first for you. It's forgiving when every other part of you wants to remember. That's God honoring forgiveness. And again, like, how do you do it when you've been betrayed? How do you do it when you're hurting? Well, you forgive like you've been forgiven.

And I'll tell you how I was forgiven. I hurt people before Christ. I lied to people before Christ. I cheated before Christ. I fell into sexual sin before Christ. I betrayed people. I pushed myself first. I put myself first.

And because of the price that Jesus paid and the stripes upon his back and the blood he shed, for me, I was forgiven. Didn't earn a bit of that. Didn't deserve a bit of that. Deserve death, hell, and the grave. And got life, the Holy Spirit. forgiveness and the grace of God I've never ever deserved. So what do you do next if you're hurting

right now? What do you do? I'm going to just tell you like come back emotionally. If you're in a broken relationship and you're not in danger, if you're in danger, it's a different conversation. If you've got to, if there's a chance and a hope and there's anything of the Spirit of God and anything of the Spirit of God and then come back emotionally because some of you, you didn't leave physically. You checked out emotionally. You started. Stonewall for so long, you forgot what it feels like to be in the room. And I want to just remind you about Jesus. He didn't stonewall you.

And when you sinned and mocked him, he didn't roll his eyes at you. And he never said, you get what you deserve. But he stayed and he loved you. He loved me in spite of our sin. And he took back every inch that the devil tried to steal. by giving his life. And so, if Jesus dwells within you, if you belong to him, you can forgive.

You can forgive because he first gave you. Let's go beyond marriage. Let's go beyond marriage. You are lied to, you can forgive. You are betrayed by someone you love. You can forgive. You were hurt by someone who called themselves a Christian, you can forgive. You were let down by a church and have church hurt.

Listen, you can have church hurt. Church church is real, so is church healing. Church hurts is real, so is church healing. Forgive one another as he forgave you. And so I just want you to feel it. I want you to believe it in the presence of a good God, of a grace-filled God, of a loving God, compassion of God, of a God who is full of grace and a God who is just, you can't heal by his stripes because he was wounded for you. And you can forgive because he forgave you. And you can do

one of the bravest things. You can actually go first because he went first for you. That's just how good he is. That's just how good he is. Now, does that mean everything's going to be great? You can be healed instantly? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. But as far as it depends on you, you can do what's right. Love as you've been loved, serve as you've been served,

give as he's given to you, and forgive as he's forgiven you. And seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then believe that all these other things will be added unto you as well when you put him first. I know it's hard. I know the hurt is real. I know his grace is present and his healing is real as well.

I pray you experience that healing in a way that only he can bring. So Holy Spirit, do a work today. Broken friendships, broken relationships, broken family relationships, and broken marriages, do healing work. I'm going to ask a specific question.

We're going to pray a specific prayer. This is not for every one. but it is for some of you. I don't want you to hesitate. I don't want you to hold back. I want you just to raise your hand. I want you to step into it if it's you. I wonder how many of you want to take back what the enemy is stolen relationally. It could be a friendship. It could be with a son, a daughter, a brother, a sister, a friend, someone in church, someone in life group. It could be your spouse. It could be a parent. I wonder, I'm going to ask one time. I'm going to ask you to lift up your hand if this is you, and we're going to pray by faith and believe it. How many of you want to take back what the enemy stole relationally? Would you lift up your hands right now?

hands going up all over the place. Dear God, would you work? Type in the comment section, I want God's help to take back what the enemies told. Father, I pray for miracles and restoration and healing and broken relationships. God, I pray for relationships between parents and children. God, I pray for relationships between brothers and sisters,

both biologically and in the Lord. God, I pray for broken friendships. I pray for those who have been abused. Oh, God, I pray for healing, for mental healing, for physical healing, for spiritual healing, for spiritual healing, God, for those who've been hurt and wrongfully abused. God, I pray for those who've been mentally hurt, physically hurt, sexually hurt, emotionally hurt, spiritually hurt. And God, I pray for every marriage that has a door cracked open and the devil tried to put their foot on the top post.

We kick the devil out. We bind you, Satan. You have no place in these relationships. God, we take back what the enemy has stolen. We ask that you return it seven times over, God. forgiving, forgiveness, restoration, in the relationships and marriages. We pray for it, God. And not even just in this moment, but God that people would take a step out, tell their life, tell a pastor, ask others to join in. And we stand together as the body of Christ to stand up

for God ordained marriages that would honor you and create legacies of people that would serve Jesus, God. Do miracles, we pray. In the name of Jesus, God, believing that you will. As you keep praying today, all over the place, there are those of you that you recognize, you are not in a relationship with God. Let me tell you what God did. God made the first move. Scripture tells us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

He went first. Revelation tells us that Jesus stands at the door and knocks. He's knocking at the door of your life. If anyone hears his voice and opens the door, he would come in. There are those of you today that you walked in, you're watching without a living relationship with a loving God.

Let me tell you right now, our God loves you so much. He sent his one and only son, Jesus, who was without sin, died in our place on the cross, and God raised him from the dead. You're not here by accident. God wants to do a work in you. So what do we do?

We step away from our sins. We surrender to the Lordship of Christ. When we call on his name, God hears our prayers. He forgives our sins and makes us brand new. If you think like forgiveness, I don't even understand how this is possible. When you understand you've been forgiven, not by your good works, but by His grace, suddenly it becomes possible.

There are those of you here, you still carry the weight of your sin. When you confess it to God, he forgives your sins and cleanses you from all unrighteousness. If you carry the weight or the regret of sin in your life, today is the day, God wants to forgive it and make you new. All of our churches, those who say, that's me, I need his forgiveness. I want His salvation. I'm turning from my sin. I'm giving my life to Jesus. When you pray that, he makes you new.

Your sins are forgiven, separated as far as the east is from the west. This is the moment you're here. It's not by accident. All of our churches, those online who say, that's me. I want his salvation. By faith today, I give my life to Jesus. That's your prayer. Would you lift your hands high right now?

Lift them up and say, yes, that's my prayer. We praise God today. We've got people to all of our churches saying yes to Jesus. Online, type in the comment section. I'm surrendering my life. Christ, just type that in the comment section. And today we pray with those everywhere. Just join your faith in prayer.

Pray Heavenly Father, forgive my sins. Jesus save me. Be the Lord of my life. Fill me with your spirit so I could serve you. Thank you for forgiveness. Help me to forgive others as you have forgiven me. Thank you for new life. I give you all of mine.

In Jesus' name, I pray. Church, could you celebrate today? Worship God. Thank you for healing and miracles. Thank you for new life in Christ.