A CHRISTIAN DECLARATION ON PEACE, WAR, AND MILITARY SERVICE

Published: September 4, 2007, 8:51 am

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1 Comment at end of post ___________ Excerpt . . . “To the Christians of all communions we affirm that our Lord is pleading with his Church for a break with war and that He is calling His children to a life of love, nonresistance and peacemaking in Christ. We appeal to all men to search reverently the Scriptures, to respond affirmatively to the claims of Christ, and to be colaborers with Christ in the blessed ministry of reconciliation of man to God and man to his fellow man. AMEN.” “. . . war is altogether contrary to the teaching and spirit of Christ and the Gospel. War is sin. If we profess the principle of peace and nevertheless engage in warfare and strife, we as Christians become guilty of sin and fall under the condemnation of Christ, the righteous judge.” ******* I am not a member of the Mennonite denomination. I post this, as a born again Christian, because the Mennonites are one of the very few Christian churchs that present a biblical

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