“The world’s struggle—our human effort—for peace tries vainly to produce peace by a display of power, only to be confronted with the invention of a more deadly power against which defenses must be devised. Jesus’ way of giving peace is not by intimidation, coercion, or displays of power, but the transformation of character by which the need for making war is gone, and the power for making peace is given.” –Fruit of the Vine

Query: Are you a peacemaker?

True goodness arises from

the Spirit.

It is effortless, selfless,

benefits all.

But goodness for show

is destructive.

–Jim Teeters, from “38” in Because of This