“The Passionate Pursuit of Peace”

The Proverbs talk a lot about conflict. The greedy stir up conflict, angry people stir up conflict, hatred stirs up conflict, a perverse person stirs up conflict. As Christians, we’re called to the opposite—instead of stirring up conflict, what if you stirred up peace? In the angry, contentious, politically divisive season we’re living in today, being a peacemaker may not be easy. Too often, when the pursuit of peace is painful, we disengage; we give up; we pull away; or worse, we react in bitterness. But a peacemaker is not someone who avoids conflict, or someone who withdraws. A peacemaker seeks peace where they can’t find it; the peacemaker creates peace where they can’t see it; the peacemaker forges peace out of the broken pieces of relationships. So to be like Jesus, you have to passionately pursue peace.

Be a peacemaker in your relationships.
Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.
Be someone else’s peacemaker.
Equip yourself for peacemaking.

Book Recommendations:
* Crucial Conversations – If You Don’t Talk It Out, You’ll Act It Out by Joseph Grenny
* How to Have That Difficult Conversation by Henry Cloud
* Everybody Wins by Gary Chapman
* The Art of Forgiving by Lewis Smedes

Reach across the aisle before the election.

Verse for the Week: Proverbs 18:24

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