Monday, April 28, 2008

Prince of Peace, God of War

This is a movie that I look forward to seeing. It is a small budget movie and does not have much of a release. I will work to find it and when I do, I look forward to showing it at church and then having some good conversations about it.

I believe violence and non-violence a very important issue for the Church to wrestle with, at all times and in every age.

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live - this lost world - means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.
- Francis Schaeffer

The crucified Jesus is a more adequate key to understanding what God is about in the real world of empires and armies and markets than is the ruler in Rome, with all his supporting military, commercial, and networks... Jesus renounced the legitimate use of violence and the accrediting of the existing authorities; renouncing as well the ritual purity of noninvolvement, his people will encounter in ways analogous to his own the hostility of the old order.
-John Howard Yoder

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