"Shows you how to use biblical wisdom to methodically analyze and respond to many kinds of conflict."

Caution and Disclaimer

The process described herein is wholly faith driven guided by biblical principles, examples and procedures. It is based on the author's religious convictions and should only be used by those who share the same views.

As such, faith-based conflict resolution should not be viewed as the practice of law, mediation, counseling, or some other profession licensed or not licensed. Instead, it is a fundamental exercise of religious faith. Conciliators are not acting in a professional or licensed capacity and are not and should not offer legal, accounting, counseling, or other advice other than spiritual guidance.

In addition, the process described is entirely voluntary. Participants receiving spiritual guidance should not be coerced or pressured in any way to become involved or continue in the process. Expressed or implied personal or religious threats such as shunning, excommunication, or eternal consequence are not and should not be made in an effort to secure participation. Rather, each participant's choices are a matter of his or her own conscience. Faith alone drives the process. Nevertheless, religious conviction may drive a church's response to participants' choices.

Furthermore, the process should respect governmental laws of confidentiality and privacy. In accordance with Matthew 18 interaction and increasing participation by third parties should occur in an orderly way. Every effort should be made to minimize disclosure and embarrassment tempered with spiritual accountability.

Next, the process described is targeted at interpersonal conflict between "believers" of a civil nature only. For example, it is not designed for criminal cases, cases involving serious moral turpitude, insurance cases, workers compensation cases, or cases in which the laws of governmental authority are involved. The Apostle Paul's advice in I Corinthians VI is general guidance. There may be biblically legitimate exceptions to his prohibition on lawsuits. Please consult those in spiritual authority over you.

Also, implementation as narrowly understood herein is not "authoritarian." Instead, participants subject themselves voluntarily to peer review by others who share similar religious convictions. Therefore, the process is not designed to be conducted by vocational church leaders, elders, or church staff. Lay people, preferably trained, form the core resource. Church leaders play a very different role in the process.

Finally, conciliators, participants and leaders should feel free at any time to seek legal counsel. In fact, they are instructed to do so. Faith-based conflict resolution is not a substitute for competent legal or other professional counsel. Rather, such consultations can aid in the process. Issues such as confidentiality concerns, statutes of limitations, and other matters mandate expert review. Existing legal representation and pending litigation should be disclosed and respected.

ICORVI Ministries, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and successors for themselves disclaim any responsibility for misuse or misunderstanding of the process herein. No assumption of liability is expressed or implied. You are directed to consult you own attorney and spiritual advisor for final direction.

Usage Guidelines

Users of the Solomon’s Abacus agree to abide by the following usage guidelines:

1. Users acknowledge that information submitted to Solomon’s Abacus travels over public internet in an unencrypted format. Privacy cannot be ensured. Solomon’s Abacus should never be used to transmit extremely sensitive information, such as banking account numbers and passwords.

2. Users of the Solomon’s Abacus must adhere to the usage guidelines of the web hosting providers that provide network and computing services.

3. The Solomon’s Abacus system shall not be used to engage in or support any form of illegal activity.

4. The Solomon’s Abacus service may not be used to send unsolicited mass E-mails, i.e. spam or e-mails to third parties.

5. Solomon’s Abacus provides this service as a courtesy to our customers. Users agree that Solomon’s Abacus may, at its sole discretion, discontinue this service, or impose limits on its operation, at any time without further notice. Users agree that there shall be no form of compensation due to users in the event of a service discontinuation or disruption. While Solomon’s Abacus hopes that this free service will prove useful to its customers, there is no service-level expectation or guarantee of any kind. Solomon’s Abacus reserves the right to charge for its service in the future.

6. Customers are advised to retain copies of their entries and to verify delivery of E-mail messages. Do not rely on this service for critical communications.

7. Users are required to provide valid name and contact information. Do not use this system to forge E-mail messages.

8. Solomon’s Abacus reserves the right to deny service to individuals and/or their devices based on their device hardware ID, username, IP address, E-mail address, or other identifying information. For example, Solomon’s Abacus may block access to the service in response to complaints of abuse or illegal activity by E-mail recipients.

Privacy Policy

In normal usage, entries will reside on the system for a short time, and then will be automatically deleted. Solomon’s Abacus does not maintain an archive of entries, and merely acts as a compilation service for the reports.

System logs may capture information associated with recordings, such delivery status notification, the FROM/Reply-To and TO address of an E-mail message, the IP addresses involved, the code number used, and the unique numerical identifier of the device that initiated the transmission. We may also retain a record of the codes associated with the entries made by the customer for statistical analysis purposes. We may also, from time to time, utilize the FROM/Reply-To E-mail addresses to provide E-mail updates to users regarding upcoming service disruptions or changes and new products or announcements. By providing an E-mail address, users agree to permit Solomon’s Abacus to send these E-mails.

In normal operation of the service, Solomon’s Abacus will never reveal customer’s entries or the coding associated with them. However, in very unusual circumstances, Solomon’s Abacus and its service provider do reserve the right to access or retain entries transiting the Solomon’s Abacus system:

1. To comply with lawful intercept requests by duly authorized government agencies, to cooperate with criminal investigations, and to comply with court orders.

2. In response to abuse complaints that lead us to believe that human life or property is in imminent jeopardy.

3. To comply with abuse investigations undertaken by our service provider as outlined in their usage policy document referenced above.

These usage guidelines do not (a) obligate Solomon’s Abacus to monitor, review, or police the date and content residing on the Solomon’s Abacus service, or (b) create any obligation or duty of Solomon’s Abacus to any party that is not a Customer, including, but not limited to, any Third Party User. Unless and until notified, Solomon’s Abacus is not likely to be aware of any violations of this disclosure or any violations of law. Solomon’s Abacus expects all Users to notify us of any violations of law or violations of these usage guidelines. SOLOMON’S ABACUS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR THE DATA AND CONTENT TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR INTERMEDIATELY, TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY STORED ON SOLOMON’S ABACUS OR ANY SERVICE FOR THE ACTIONS OR OMISSION OF USERS.