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1. Peacemaking and being “Agents of Reconciliation” are part of discipleship, following Christ. In essence, they are the life of the Christian. Based on the message, what do you think I mean by that?
2. We are seeing the true nature of human depravity all over the world today. The heart knows no peace, individually or communally. Personal lives are captured by a sinful inclination. Family lives are decimated by a lack of clarity as to what a family really is. And as for marriages? Society has all but abandoned it as an outmoded and irrelevant institution. The world is on fire. But hasn’t it always been? Read Romans 1:18-32, especially v.29-32. And then Matthew 15:7-20. What do the Scriptures say about human nature?
3. I spoke about my own life as a way of talking about the realities of human life in its details. We all have history and baggage of some kind that affect how we live today. I also said that God is not finished changing us. And when we are real to ourselves, we have genuine hope. We have a wonderful confidence for the great work of the Holy Spirit sanctify and transforming us through the gospel. Why is that important to be real to ourselves and others? And what does it mean to live the gospel daily?
4. Probably the point about the “truce” of life was at the heart of why many Christian lives are lukewarm or shallow. We live in the denial because we think it is easier to have a truce than war or peace. But is it?
5. God is a God of Peace. That is most shown in sending His Son. But He also said this: Matthew 10:34-39! How can both of them be true?
6. Paul tells us that Christ’s love controls us (2 Corinthians 5:14). He seems to be intimating that when we catch and are captured by the reality of Christ’s love for us supremely seen in the Cross, it will radically change us. Has it? What are the enemies of the gospel that might stop that from happening in and to us today?
7. We were defining sin as “distance creating.” Of course, it is much more than that, but should has the ministry and the message of reconciliation be understood in every relational area of life? What would this mean in all the relationships of life: with God, personal, marital, vocational, ecclesiastical (fancy word for church life), and communal?
8. These realities are close to the heart of a God, the supreme actor and example as Reconciler. What one thing is the Holy Spirit calling you to do, be or believe based on this beatitude, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God?”
