Mending the Divides
eBook - ePub

Mending the Divides

Creative Love in a Conflicted World

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mending the Divides

Creative Love in a Conflicted World

About this book

Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Mission/The Global Church

Conflict, hatred, and injustice seem to be the norm rather than the exception in our world, our nation, our communities, our homes. The fractures and fissures run so deep that we're paralyzed by our hopelessness, writing off peace as a far-fetched option for the afterlife. Even if there was the possibility of peace, where would we begin?

Instead of disengaging, Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart invite us to move toward conflict and brokenness, but not simply for the sake of resolving tensions and ending wars. These modern-day peacemakers help us understand that because peacemaking is the mission of God, it should also be the vocation of his people. So peace is no longer understood as merely the absence of conflict—peace is when relationships once severed have been repaired and restored.

Using biblical and current-day illustrations of everyday peacemakers, Mending the Divides offers a theologically compelling, richly personal, and intensely practical set of tools that equip us to join God in the restoration of broken relationships, unjust systems, and global conflicts. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. FOREWORD by Lynne Hybels
  5. ONE - Confused, Divided, and Paralyzed
  6. TWO - Speaking of Peace
  7. THREE - The Divine Pattern
  8. FOUR - Everyday Conflict, Everyday Peacemaking
  9. FIVE - See 
  10. SIX - Immerse
  11. SEVEN - Contend
  12. EIGHT - Restore
  13. NINE - Time to Begin
  14. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  15. APPENDIX A  - Building a Road Map: Ten Days, Ten Weeks, Ten Months
  16. APPENDIX B  - A Peacemaking Library
  17. NOTES
  18. THE GLOBAL IMMERSION PROJECT
  19. PRAISE FOR MENDING THE DIVIDES
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  21. MORE TITLES FROM INTERVARSITY PRESS
  22. Copyright