Peace Month - Week 3 Queries Community • Is our meeting more concerned with being “Jesus’ children” (i.e. children of Abraham) than trying to live out what Jesus taught and modeled for us? •What is one known need our meeting can work to meet in our local community? Personal • How am I being “Jesus with skin-on” to those around me? • What gifts, abilities, or resources do I bring to the discussion? Christian Witness to Peace (From our NWYM Faith and Practice): We believe the precepts of Christ our Lord and the whole spirit of His Gospel call us to live at peace with all people. Therefore we consider war and violence incompatible with the holiness we profess. We ask our leaders to choose nonviolent alternatives for sustaining economic and civil order. We respect government as an instrument of God to restrain evil and promote justice, and we submit to it in matters that do not interfere with obedience to Christ our Lord. When conflicts arise among persons, we will resolve them in a spirit of humility, with love for those who oppose us, and in accordance with biblical methods of peacemaking. (See Matthew 18 and George Fox’s “Gospel Order.”)
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:05:06 +0000
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