Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week with Jason Porterfield - KR 193
Apr 7, 2022
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Moving Into Vancouver's Dangerous Neighborhood
Jason Porterfield moved into Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in 2007 to live among the urban poor as a peacemaker.
Three weeks later the Robert Picton trial exposed mass murders of local women and revealed Jason's lack of preparation for confronting systemic violence.
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Holy Week Starts With Lament Not Celebration
Jesus begins Holy Week with lament, revealing that peacemaking is a multi-day campaign rather than a single event.
Luke records Jesus weeping and saying If only you knew the things that make for peace, prompting study of his whole final week.
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Peacemaking Is A Multi Day Campaign
Jesus' peacemaking cannot be reduced to one act like the cross; the cross is the culmination of daily confrontations for peace.
Skipping the intervening days risks adopting the same violent methods that led to his crucifixion.
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Throughout Holy Week, two competing approaches to peacemaking collide. Jason What if we've embraced the wrong one?
At the start of Holy Week, tears streamed down Jesus' face as he cried out, "If only you knew the things that make for peace." From that moment, until a week later when he triumphantly declared, "Peace be with you," Jesus spent each day confronting injustice, calling out oppressors and contending for peace.
But what if—despite all our familiarity with the events of Holy Week—we still don't know how Jesus makes peace? And what if—despite clinging to the cross of Christ for our salvation—we've actually embraced a different approach to peacemaking? One that justifies killing enemies. One whose methods include nailing criminals to crosses.
We desperately need to recover the radical vision of peacemaking that Jesus embodied throughout Holy Week. And we urgently need to be trained in his way of making peace. So, come. Let's journey together day-by-day through Jesus' final week and discover anew why he is called the Prince of Peace.
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