Coexist?
27 July 2006
Bekah and I spent 4 months in Israel/Palestine while in college. Looking back, it was some of the best months of our lives. Incredible adventures. Wonderful friends. I could go on...
Toward the end of our trip, their was an outdoor installation art exhibit just outside of the old city, near Jaffa Gate (a few hundred yards from my dorm room). It was an exhibit dedicated to peace.
Within 2 days the art was vandalized. Huh.
My impulse is to vent the anger that wells within me as I watch CNN. My impulse is to tell off the guy in my church who quotes a random, obscure verse of scripture, as if that completely settles the matter. As if. My impulse is to spout off on this blog at the history of violence in the region. My impulse is to wax eloquent on my 'solution'.
I'll refrain. . .because, quite frankly, the people caught in the crossfire don't really care what a middle class white pastor in Ohio thinks. Nor should they.
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem..."
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Drew Moser @ 3:37 PM : : permalink
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Being from a dispensational background, some in our church are very quick to side with Israel on any matter. They are quick to quote Bible verses, like you experienced, to back up their support for Israel. As believers we cannot support hate and genocide even if it is Israel who is at fault.
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Joel Newton @ 9:58 AM : : permalink
Amen. I too need to step back and hold back from my initial impulses (which I don't always do).
At any rate, you are so right. Though I do wonder just how we apply the verse to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, seeing that it is no longer the place in which God's temple dwells (as it says in that psalm).
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