Jesus on Breaking the Chain of Violence | Gospel of Matthew
John Mark Comer Teachings
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The Importance of Non-Violence in the Age of Violence
For the first 400 years of church history, there was agreement basically across the board that all violence was out of bounds for apprenticeship to Jesus. To follow Jesus means you reject the either-or flight or fight option and you look for an option so you look for a creative non-violent solution to put a stop to evil. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. based his entire non-violent movement on the Sermon on the Mount in particular,. Matthew 5 and everything that he picked up when he was in seminary. For Leo Tolstoy, if you've ever read his work, the center of the gospel was the Kingdom of God, thecenter of the Kingdom ofGod was the
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