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Be intentional in developing others by explaining what you’re doing and why. If your leadership style revolves around a strong value you have, name it, and explain why you’re using it.
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
We have prayed for peace, and we will continue to pray for peace. But we also have realized that sometimes we think we are waiting on God when actually God is waiting on us. We cannot wait on politicians or governments. The new world the prophets of old told us about begins with us. It begins with you. We are the ones that we have been waiting on.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
Jesus is not telling us to submit to evil, but to refuse to oppose it on its own terms. We are not to let the opponent dictate the methods of our opposition. He is urging us to transcend both passivity and violence by finding a third way, one that is at once assertive and yet nonviolent. The correct translation would be the one still preserved in the earliest renditions of this saying found in the New Testament epistles: “Do not repay evil for evil” (Rom. 12:17; 1 Thes. 5:15; 1 Pet. 3:9). The Scholars Version of Matt. 5:39a is superb: “Don’t react violently against the one who is evil.”
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
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