Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Gospel of Peace

I've been reading and enjoying and learning from Ron Sider's If Jesus is Lord. Sider is making the New Testament case for non-aggression, non-retaliation, nonviolence. He is making the case, in other words, for pacifism (or something very close to it). It is a book that covers much of the same ground covered by Preston Sprinkle's Fight: A Christian Case for Nonviolence.

This is a place the modern church does not want to go. It would be revealing to compare how often the NT uses the word "peace" to how often it is used in modern sermons. It would be good for us all to grasp the heights and depths of what Paul readily calls "the gospel of peace." [Eph 6:15]

I'll no doubt have more to say about all this in future posts. But for now, have a very peaceful day.

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