MAKE IT WORK, PEOPLE!

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Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.
Luke 12:51-52 NASB



¶We are encouraged not to expect to be under a "Christian consensus" that will protect Jesus-followers from conflict and persecution. Jesus reaches from the past through the Bible's historical record and presents to the modern world an unlikely combination of exclusivity and implausibility. We are increasingly unmoored from traditions that have anchored us in the past, and that have kept cultures and households from drifting apart. The question the chief priests and elders of the temple asked of Jesus, “By what authority are you doing these things?" remained unanswered by them then, and so it does for the world today. People have forever been willing to cede authority to the most powerful man among them, but never have they done so with so little justification, so little appeal to moral absolutes, as now. But if we Jesus people can make it work, it will be by the power of the Spirit, and the example of His work in our lives.

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