Peacemaking Doesn't Mean Passivity

As we’ve reflected on what it means to make peace this week, let’s hear from one of today’s veterans who has lived and served in the heart of one of the most disadvantaged neighborhood of Philadelphia for years and years. Ask yourself if this quote makes more sense of why Jesus blesses the peacemakers so profoundly in the Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God (Matthew 5:10).

Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the opporessor free. - Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer

Ask the Lord how you might enter into peacemaking in this season of political turmoil, racial injustice, and relationship tensions.