http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2006/11/11/how-do-we-live-out-our-peace-witness/ let's activate something Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2006/11/11/how-do-we-live-out-our-peace-witness/#comment-350 benjaminjanderson Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:38:53 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2006/11/11/how-do-we-live-out-our-peace-witness/#comment-350 You made a very good point about peacemaking. It is interesting that there is a very big difference between being pacifist and non-violent. When one is passive they do nothing whereas when one is a non-violent peacemaker he does something about the situation but what he does is not violent. It seems that most Mennonites either believe in non-violence and yet are militant but in a non-physical way (i.e. they fight a lot over issues in the church) or they are pacifist when something goes wrong they do nothing and turn a blind eye. Neither of those ways are what Jesus exemplified He was not a pacifist He did something but what He did was not violent it was peaceful. You made a very good point about peacemaking. It is interesting that there is a very big difference between being pacifist and non-violent. When one is passive they do nothing whereas when one is a non-violent peacemaker he does something about the situation but what he does is not violent. It seems that most Mennonites either believe in non-violence and yet are militant but in a non-physical way (i.e. they fight a lot over issues in the church) or they are pacifist when something goes wrong they do nothing and turn a blind eye. Neither of those ways are what Jesus exemplified He was not a pacifist He did something but what He did was not violent it was peaceful.

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