Martyrdom as the Church’s Answer to War: “
And if we begin with this martyrdom of conscience, our white martyrdom, we will prepare God’s church for the more colorful martyrdom that may still come our way…. It’s right out of the Book of Revelation where the Church follows the Lamb to sacrificial death as a way of embodying the Gospel and participating in the movement of God’s kingdom from heaven to earth.
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(Via First Take the Blog Out of Your Own Eye.)
Jason Zahariades found the quote above from Chris Erdman and affirms its biblicity. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when there is oppression in the world, you don’t have to be a Christian to react negatively towards the abuses carried out towards other human beings. However, our responses should be different, or at least originate from a different source, and if we merely use the tactics which seem most reasonable we run the risk of working outside of the Kingdom of God to bring about an idea of righteousness.
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