Jesus taught that peacemaking would be a way of life for the children of God.
Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Do we ignore Jesus' teaching to be peacemakers? Do we settle for cheap appeasement or work for costly reconciliation (where humanity is reconciled through Jesus not only to God, but also to each other)?
Peacemaking is costly reconciliation not appeasement: "All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 18
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