Organizational Coach Dr. Ken Thiessen outlines five common ways that anxiety manifests itself in congregations and Christian ministries.

It is important to understand how anxiety dominates much of the unhealthy decision making processes and broken relationships within faith-based ministries and congregations.

Dr. Thiessen identifies these five unhealthy ways anxiety hampers good communication and conflict resolution within Christian ministries:

• Triangulation — people talk about people rather than to people
• Self-differentiation —  relationship is contingent on agreement
• Blaming and Scapegoating — Who's the one who made this mess?
• Multigenerational transmission process — an endless cycle of looking to replace  "the problem person"
• Over-functioning and Under-functioning — People who take on the burdens of responsibility for everything, and those who avoid responsibility for anything.

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