The Harbour
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The Harbour
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
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This week, we welcome a special guest speaker from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Stephen Roy. Stephen shared a teaching with us about how making peace shows that we are children of God as God is a God of peace and not a God of violence.
Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here.
Home Church Questions:
1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?
2. Read Matthew 5:9 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage?
3. When you hear the word "peacemaker", what images or experiences come to mind?
4. How is peacemaking different from simply avoiding conflict?
5. Why do you think Jesus connects peacemaking with being called “children of God”?
6. What does peacemaking reveal about the character of God?
7. Read Romans 12:17-21 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage?
8. What practical actions does this text suggest about how to “make peace”?
9. Historically, Anabaptists have emphasized nonviolence and enemy-love. How does that deepen your understanding of peacemaking?
10. Where do you see subtle forms of retaliation in our culture (online, politics, family dynamics)? How might followers of Jesus respond differently?
11. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.
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