May the gentle face of the Child of Bethlehem remind everyone that we all have one Father,” says Saint Pope John Paul II on his Christmas Day Message in 2001 as encapsulated in ‘Christ is our Peace … est pax nostra.’

God knows what it takes. In order to redeem and reconcile with all of humankind, he sacrifices his ‘only begotten son’ (John 3:16).

In ‘Reconcile … Conflict Transformation for Ordinary Christians,’(scroll down on the bookshop page) author John Paul Lederach states:

“To reconcile requires a commitment to see the face of God in the other, to feel the world from their perspective and to place ourselves not in control of but alongside the human condition and condition.

If we consider this the root art of reconciliation then loving God, requires a willingness to dwell alongside human suffering, to be with others in the way God has chosen to be with us.

The challenge of reconciliation is to come alongside our own deepest struggle to understand, to come alongside the story and struggle of another, and to come alongside the unexpected presence of God in both.”

Joel C. Rosenberg, a New York Times best-selling author and one of the founders of the Alliance for the Peace of Jerusalem states: “Evangelicals who take the Bible literally are required to believe that God loves both Israelis and Palestinians and that we, too, are commanded to love both” (* Page 68; Kindle Locations 1225-1229).

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*‘Christian Zionism … Enraptured Around a Golden Calf’ (2nd Edition)

www.surrenderIsraeltoGod.com

www.buildingthebridge.eu

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