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The Difference In Loving And Making Peace
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part seven of an eight-part series
exploring the eight Jesus questions all of us must face,
highlighted in Jim Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis:
Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These
next eight weeks will help us go deeper than the headlines, to
find our way back to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and
exhausting news cycle. 

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

"Blessed are the peace lovers," for they shall be called
righteous -- on the right side. They will be known for what they
will not do, for being against war, for preferring peace, for not
fighting, for staying out of conflicts.

But that is not what Jesus said. The text in Matthew 5:9 says,
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God." Making peace is not the same as avoiding
conflicts. Making peace means moving into conflicts, trying to
resolve them, to uncover their causes, to restore relationships,
to heal the wounds, to seek a just peace. Peacemaking is conflict
resolution. A positive sign I see is how many young people I meet
who are being drawn into the vocation of conflict resolution as
both a science and an art -- based in a way of life -- in a
lifestyle of non-violence.

Human conflict is inevitable because we're human, both in
relationships and in institutions like nations. How we resolve
those conflicts is the issue. When you think about it, most of
our conflicts are resolved without resorting to violence. So, the
question we should seek to answer as followers of Jesus is how to
increase the number of conflicts that are resolved nonviolently.
Jesus recognizes how difficult and important this work is, which
is why he specifically recognizes those who resolve human
conflicts as children of God.

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