Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0830844848 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After much international travel and study in the Middle East, Jon focuses much of his writing on ethics and social advocacy. Jon Huckins is the cofounder of The Global Immersion Project, a peacemaking training organization that is activating the North American church as an instrument of peace. He is the author of Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional. . He has a master's degre
"Jesus' infectious peacemaking has taken hold of Jer Swigart and Jon Huckins. In a world of broken trust, hostile prejudice, religious violence, and pervasive fear, our world desperately needs God's people to be humble, courageous, and just peacemakers. The need for this fruit of the Spirit could hardly be more urgent." (Mark Labberton, president, Fuller Theological Seminary) . This book explains how and whybut even more, how and why they passionately want it to happen in the lives of any who are followers of Jesus
These modern-day peacemakers help us understand that because peacemaking is the mission of God, it should also be the vocation of his people. Conflict, hatred, and injustice seem to be the norm rather than the exception in our world, our nation, our communities, our homes. The fractures and fissures run so deep that we're paralyzed by our hopelessness, writing off peace as a far-fetched option for the afterlife. Using biblical and current-day illustrations of everyday peacemakers, Mending the Divides equips disciples of Jesus to move toward conflict and seek the restoration of our relationships, our communities, and our world, offering practical steps to engage in the kingdom-building work of waging peace.. So peace is no longer understood as merely the absence of conflictpeace is when relationships once severed have been repaired and restored. Even if there was the possibility of peace, where would we begin? Instead of disengagi