Dealing with division

Have you ever met someone who can't agree? THose people who have to go against the majority, stand up when they don't have a fight and just divide the group. There are people like this in all walks of life from churches, to workplaces, to neighborhoods and schools, sports teams and so on. You'll always run into them, but how do we deal with them? What do we do when we are friends with them, or when we have to deal with them over and over again?
I could have used this advice numerous times through out my lifetime. In highschool on our baseball team we had these two guys who were constantly trying to turn us against one another. We had times where the team was almost divided in half over something really silly. And it never failed, every time it all pointed back to those two. I had two really close friends on the team and we were almost inseparable. Those two would try to split us up, get one of us mad at the other and the sad thing is it worked on one of my friends once. He actually got mad at me over something silly and we didn't talk for two days. That was the point where I decided I had enough. I was done with it so I went to the two and sat down with them at Subway, told them how I felt about it and felt good about it. Then, the next day they actually struck harder saying that I was talking bad about the friend who had turned against me a few days earlier. Little did they know, I let him know everything that was discussed and fixed things with him there after the meeting. I then had to go to them again and let them know along with my two buddies that we were unhappy. I actually continued this for about a year and a half about every month or two there was something that came up and we were as a team dealing with them. Finally, we realized we were making no headway and gave up.
Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned" (Titus 3:10-11).
Well, Paul gives Titus some advice as he is young and attempting to start a church. He tells him to go to them and let them know what they are doing. Sit down calmly with them and point out the damage that they are doing and let them know what the results may be. Give it some time, if they haven't changed do it again. After that wash your hands of the whole matter and understand that most likely they aren't going to listen to your advice, so there is no real need to try over and over again.
Paul's advice would have been golden in those days, I would have never wasted a whole year working on something that wasn't going to be fixed. The self-condemned part is very true and that should be our focus once we can't slow them down after 2 warnings.
Don't waste your breath once it doesn't work, it won't work. Just pray for them and stay away.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!