Fight Like Jesus
How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week
by Jason Porterfield
Pub Date 01 Feb 2022 |
Herald Press
Christian | Nonfiction (Adult)
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Throughout Holy Week, two competing approaches to peacemaking collide. What if we have embraced the wrong one?
When Holy Week Started tears streamed down Jesus’s face as he cried out, “If only you knew the things that make for peace. From that moment to a week later when he triumphantly declared, “Peace be with you,” Jesus spent each day confronting injustice, calling out oppressors and contending for peace.
Fight Like Jesus poses the question What if, despite all our familiarity with Holy Week we still don’t know how Jesus makes peace? And what if despite clinging to the cross of Christ for our salvation we’ve actually embraced a different approach to peacemaking? One that justifies killing enemies. One whose methods include nailing criminals to crosses.
We desperately need to recover the radical vision of peacemaking that Jesus embodied throughout Holy Week. And we urgently need to be trained in his way of making peace. So, come. Let’s journey together day-by-day through Jesus’ final week and discover anew why he is called the Prince of Peace.
I give Fight Like Jesus five out of five stars!
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