What do you do with a person who makes your life miserable on purpose, a spiteful boss, an ex-spouse, a neighbour you can barely stand? Paying them back in kind is the easiest response, but in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) Jesus moves the boundary of the old law of retaliation straight into the human heart. The sermon traces where an eye for an eye came from, why loving your enemies is not naivety, and recalls people who actually walked that road, from Martin Luther King to a mother who faced her son’s killer in court. Listen if you are carrying a wound and do not know what to do with it.
What Am I to Do With You?
How to Live Together
Conflicts are an unwanted but often unavoidable part of life. Whether we like it or not, they simply erupt and turn our world upside down. That’s when we ask ourselves, “How can we live together without killing each other?” However, conflicts aren’t just about not killing each other; above all, they’re about navigating them wisely and learning something from them.
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