Pursuing Peace

For the healing of the Nations, by Paul R. Dekar In addition to the organizations mentioned above, there have been many notable individual Baptist peacemakers. An excellent source for learning about both Baptist peacemaking groups and individuals is Canadian Baptist Paul R. Throughout his book there are also many references to Edwin Dahlberg, who is perhaps not so widely known but who was one of the leading Baptist peacemakers of the twentieth century.

Dahlberg was an American Baptist pastor and a passionate peacemaker. The Gandhi Peace Award, established in , selected two peacemakers to receive the awards that inaugural year: Dahlberg and Eleanor Roosevelt. I was particularly happy that my friend Ken Sehested was given that Award.

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He was deserving of that recognition because of his stalwart work as founding executive director of BPFNA. We understand violence to be the opposite of shalom — not just war making, but also child abuse, hunger, civil and human rights abuses. In the more than 30 years since then, BPFNA has continued to work passionately for peace and justice; it is not possible to have the former without the latter.

The initial impetus for this article came when earlier this year I saw the list of contributors to the work of BPFNA, listed by state. In contrast to the numerous donors in many other states, there were only six units individuals or couples in Missouri and seven in Kansas who contributed and only one Kansas church in the two states that financially supported the work of BPFNA last year. Surely there are many other Baptists in Missouri and Kansas who can and will join in the important endeavor to work for peace — or at least to support with their financial gifts and prayers those who are passionately pursuing peace here in this country as well as in Japan and in other countries around the world.

Leroy Seat served as a Southern Baptist missionary in Japan beginning in Upon his retirement in , he became professor emeritus at Seinan Gakuin University and pastor emeritus of Fukuoka International Church. He and his wife, June, now live in Liberty, Mo.

Pursuing peace – or something like it

Read times Last modified on Wednesday, 08 August Rate this item 1 2 3 4 5 1 Vote. Tweet it to your followers! More in this category: Search Go Advanced Search. They might even say, "What else could peace mean? Peace means the end of hostilities. We all have a sense that peace is about an absence of conflict, hostility, and fighting.

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However, this is not the whole picture of peace. Jesus says that there is deeper kind of peace that can only come through His supernatural power and the working of the Holy Spirit. It is a series built on the Fruit of the Spirit as described in Galatians 5: These nine "fruit of the Spirit" are character qualities that we are encouraged to develop so we can become better people. Today, it is important to take the next step in this process as we look at Pursuing Peace.

We all long for peace. We want peace in the Middle East, peace in America, and all over the world. When Jesus talked about peace, He not only emphasized, the absence of conflict, but the importance of spiritual and relational healing.

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You cannot be at true peace with others until you are at peace with yourself. But you can never be totally and truly at peace with yourself unless you are at peace with God, for true peace flows from the only One who can give peace. Over the next few minutes, I am going to talk about pursuing. People are looking for peace today in every place but the right place.

Some try to find peace in pills or pleasure or possessions but discover too late that these things offer only a synthetic, counterfeit peace that always wears off and wears out. Lasting peace is found in a growing relationship with God. We all know people who avoid church and stay away from anything having to do with God.

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If you were to ask them, "Are you angry and hostile toward God? As a matter of fact, I am at peace with God. What does it really mean to be "at peace with God? They are going to allow God do His thing and they will do theirs. There is no open conflict, but there is certainly not a healthy and growing relationship. You cannot find lasting peace when you are at arms distance with God.

You were created to have a relationship with God, but that relationship has been thwarted because of sin. When sin entered the world, it destroyed our ability to connect with God. As a result, we live with an unsettledness in our soul until the sin has been erased. You will never find permanent peace in the center of your soul until you enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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