Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Compassion Ministries, Student Workbook, SW16

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(2) Indiscriminate weapons (e.g., chemical weapons, poison gases, etc.) (3) Atomic weapons (ABC’s of indiscriminate weapons, atomic, biological, and chemical )

IV. Living as a Christian Peacemaker

A. Recognize that the differences between peoples have now been acknowledged and reconciled in the ministry of Christ.

1. Our differences are now reconciled through the work of Christ on the cross, between Jew and Gentile, slave and free, male and female, barbarian and Sycthian, Eph. 2; Col. 3.11; Gal. 3.28.

2. God is reconciled with all people now in his Son, 2 Cor. 5.18-21.

3. We all together share in both the guilt and the glory, Rom. 3; 1.16-17.

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B. We must affirm that in a world of diversity the goal of redemption is Christlikeness, not cultural sameness (i.e., the goal is to enable people to be more like Jesus, not like us).

1. Colossians 3.11 and Galatians 3.28 do not advocate the obliteration of cultural identity, only the end of ungodly partiality.

2. Culture has been redeemed in the incarnation of Jesus, 1 John 1.1-3.