Section VI – The Family of Nations: The Peoples in Conflicts We See and Serve for Peace: This is an audio reading of Section VI of the Seoul Statement, urging Christians to actively pursue peace and reconciliation amid global conflicts and injustices. To read the full text, visit lausanne.org/statement/the-seoul-statement.
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.7476619151Section six of the Soul Statement the Family of Nations, the Peoples In Conflicts we see and serve for peace. 2 00:00:07,244.0809952484 --> 00:00:07,904.0809952484 Introduction. 3 00:00:08,460.7476619151 --> 00:00:17,220.747661915 The people of Christ must be known as a people of peace because the gospel we proclaim brings peace between God and individuals, between individuals and between peoples. 4 00:00:17,910.747661915 --> 00:00:18,180.747661915 God's. 5 00:00:18,180.747661915 --> 00:00:24,660.747661915 Purpose is to see diverse peoples flourish as they share their gifts and the Earth's resources in just and generous ways. 6 00:00:25,275.747661915 --> 00:00:35,175.747661915 We thank God for many examples of Christian communities and individuals who have embodied the Bible's consistent call to be at peace and to make peace in a world ridden with conflict. 7 00:00:35,745.747661915 --> 00:00:40,635.747661915 We honor them as those who champion the peace of Christ, even at the risk to their own reputations and lives. 8 00:00:41,205.747661915 --> 00:00:47,385.747661915 And yet the church has not always honored the peace of Christ as a defining quality of its existence in the world. 9 00:00:47,925.747661915 --> 00:00:52,725.747661915 There are historical examples of the church's involvement, whether explicit or tacit. 10 00:00:53,265.747661915 --> 00:01:08,865.747661915 In activities and enterprises that espouse violence and promote war, these amount to the scandalizing of the gospel, it proclaims What does Christ desire from his church? A people made up of all peoples called to declare and display Christ in a world torn by conflict. 11 00:01:10,665.747661915 --> 00:01:17,415.747661915 One, we affirm God's purpose in Christ to reconcile all peoples through the gospel in a world full of conflict. 12 00:01:19,215.747661915 --> 00:01:32,955.747661915 The Anne movement has played a key role in encouraging mission to unreached peoples in recognition of the need for individuals of every culturally distinct people to hear the good news of Gods saving rule overall peoples, and hence overall people. 13 00:01:33,915.747661915 --> 00:01:44,895.74766192 We pray for the day when states, nations in the modern sense that actively seek to prevent those they govern from hearing the good news and that persecute those who hear and believe will cease doing so. 14 00:01:45,420.74766192 --> 00:01:50,70.74766192 We pray this not only for the sake of the individuals, but of the peoples of which they are apart. 15 00:01:50,640.74766192 --> 00:01:55,890.74766192 Central to God's purposes through the gospel is the reconciliation of all peoples in Christ. 16 00:01:55,890.74766192 --> 00:02:08,310.74766192 In a relationship marked by mutual blessing, we affirm that this purpose of God can only be achieved as the hearts of individuals are transformed and filled with love for those whose cultural identity differs from their own. 17 00:02:09,195.74766192 --> 00:02:19,545.74766192 We rejoice together over the many situations in the world where severe conflict has waned and strange communities have received the opportunity for reconciliation and restoration of harmony. 18 00:02:20,355.74766192 --> 00:02:30,405.74766192 Some examples are the conflict in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa, the Rwandan genocide, and the Sri Lankan Civil War among other conflicts around the world. 19 00:02:30,855.74766192 --> 00:02:32,655.74766192 We celebrate that in some of these settings. 20 00:02:33,15.74766192 --> 00:02:35,775.74766192 God used churches, Christian organizations. 21 00:02:36,210.74766192 --> 00:02:45,930.74766192 And individual Christians to champion the cause of peace, whether as frontline peacemakers between conflicting parties or through negotiation influence and intercession. 22 00:02:46,260.74766192 --> 00:02:58,320.74766192 In the background of the conflict, we are deeply saddened to note that several new armed conflicts and wars into ethnic inter religious and international have erupted in every region of the world. 23 00:02:58,920.74766192 --> 00:03:05,730.74766192 From over 100 current armed conflicts in the world, the regions of the Middle East and Africa have seen the highest concentration. 24 00:03:05,790.74766192 --> 00:03:19,290.74766192 At this point in time, the Russia, Ukraine War and the war in Gaza have received the most media attention, yet severe conflicts such as those in Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Ethiopia are hardly mentioned. 25 00:03:20,250.74766192 --> 00:03:25,290.74766192 We also acknowledge the forgotten wars around the world, especially the one on the Korean peninsula. 26 00:03:26,190.74766192 --> 00:03:29,640.74766192 Though they remain outta public view, they are seen by God. 27 00:03:30,270.74766192 --> 00:03:35,520.74766192 We grieve the tragic loss of life, these wars exact, and the massive destruction to societies. 28 00:03:36,210.74766192 --> 00:03:39,150.74766192 Deny future generations their opportunity to flourish. 29 00:03:41,400.74766192 --> 00:03:52,470.74766192 Two, we repent of our failures to condemn and restrain violence by remaining silent, by promoting nationalism or by unjustly supporting conflicts through deficient theological justification. 30 00:03:54,510.74766192 --> 00:04:01,830.74766192 We condemn those who use their influence in world affairs to promote avoidable conflicts and wars merely to further their economic and political interests. 31 00:04:02,340.74766192 --> 00:04:05,10.74766192 We are saddened by the immense suffering Their actions have caused. 32 00:04:05,475.74766192 --> 00:04:08,925.74766192 We believe that they will be held accountable before God on the day of judgment. 33 00:04:09,675.74766192 --> 00:04:13,455.74766192 We call all Christians to serve the vulnerable in context of war. 34 00:04:13,935.74766192 --> 00:04:22,905.74766192 By pooling our resources and supporting the relief efforts of churches and humanitarian organizations that are situated near conflict zones. 35 00:04:23,355.74766192 --> 00:04:33,345.74766192 We also commit to serve as peacemakers by supporting negotiations aimed at ending conflicts, and by calling for justice and reparation for the innocent victims of violence. 36 00:04:33,900.74766192 --> 00:04:45,330.74766192 Christians at various times in history have not only promoted violence and war, but also remained silent in the face of such atrocities, rather than speaking with prophetic integrity and courage. 37 00:04:45,900.74766192 --> 00:04:47,760.74766192 This is captured in the Cape Town commitment. 38 00:04:48,210.74766192 --> 00:05:00,630.74766192 We acknowledge with grief and shame the complicity of Christians in some of the most destructive context of ethnic violence and oppression, and the lamentable silence of large parts of the church when such conflicts take place. 39 00:05:01,65.74766192 --> 00:05:21,825.74766192 Such contexts include the history and legacy of racism and black slavery, the Holocaust against Jews, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, inter Christian sectarian violence, decimation of indigenous populations, political and ethnic violence, Palestinian suffering, cast oppression, and tribal genocide. 40 00:05:22,605.74766192 --> 00:05:25,755.74766192 We echo the Cape Town commitment in calling for repentance. 41 00:05:25,755.74766192 --> 00:05:29,745.74766192 For the many times, Christians have been complicit in such evils by silence. 42 00:05:30,120.74766192 --> 00:05:35,760.74766192 Apathy or presumed neutrality, or by providing defective theological justification for these. 43 00:05:36,360.74766192 --> 00:05:44,670.74766192 Much of this defective theological justification arises from a failure to distinguish between the nations of scripture and modern nation states. 44 00:05:44,940.74766192 --> 00:05:55,770.74766192 And from a failure to think biblically about nationality in scripture, nations were culturally distinct peoples whose identities were shaped by historical attachment to loosely defined territory. 45 00:05:56,490.74766192 --> 00:06:19,530.74766192 The worship of a God or Gods whose rule over a people was exercised through a king By contrast, nation states or nations in the modern sense are governments that administer internationally recognized political sovereignty by means of constitutionally ordered institutions and laws over territories with clearly demarcated borders, and the individuals and peoples who live within them. 46 00:06:20,70.74766192 --> 00:06:22,740.74766192 Most modern nation states govern multiple peoples. 47 00:06:23,235.74766192 --> 00:06:38,835.74766192 That is groups within their borders who do not derive their collective identity from nationality alone, but from ethnicity, race, country of origin, and the many other forms of collective identity that enrich the modern world in terms of identity. 48 00:06:39,195.74766192 --> 00:06:45,945.74766192 These culturally distinct groups are often closer to the peoples that formed the nations of scripture than to modern states. 49 00:06:46,485.74766192 --> 00:06:48,670.74766192 We affirm that every modern state is accountable. 50 00:06:49,95.74766192 --> 00:06:57,465.74766192 To the divine demand for the just and merciful treatment of both the individuals and peoples over whom it exercises sovereignty, as well as those of its neighbors. 51 00:06:58,65.74766192 --> 00:07:14,235.74766192 It is critically important that Christians think clearly about biblical peoples when they're associated by name, history, geography, or ancestry with modern nation states, for example, Israel, Egypt, Syria, and the peoples who live under the political sovereignty of these states. 52 00:07:14,625.74766192 --> 00:07:19,305.74766192 Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, cops, Jews, Armenians, Kurds, and many more. 53 00:07:20,145.74766192 --> 00:07:28,455.74766192 God is fulfilling his promises to all these peoples, both Jews and Gentiles, through the good news of Jesus, the Messiah in the Middle East and elsewhere. 54 00:07:28,785.74766192 --> 00:07:33,795.74766192 Christian leaders must work to correct theological errors that provide ideological justification. 55 00:07:34,125.74766192 --> 00:07:40,155.74766192 For unjust violence against innocent civilians or seek to legitimize violations of international humanitarian law. 56 00:07:40,305.74766192 --> 00:07:47,55.74766192 We lament that some Christians have looked to the state rather than the gospel as the key means for bringing about God's intentions for the world. 57 00:07:48,15.74766192 --> 00:08:03,45.74766192 This takes an especially regrettable form when wed to nationalism here, defined as the belief that every state should have a single national culture and no other, or ethnonationalism, which is the belief that every ethnic group should have its own state. 58 00:08:03,495.74766192 --> 00:08:05,55.74766192 This is a great evil in our world. 59 00:08:05,535.74766192 --> 00:08:11,355.74766192 We lament that many Christians have been sadly complicit in it, as well as in the claims of ethnic and racial supremacy. 60 00:08:11,355.74766192 --> 00:08:13,155.74766192 It fosters against this. 61 00:08:13,155.74766192 --> 00:08:19,845.74766192 We assert that no modern state is able to claim or will ever be able to claim to be the special agent of God's saving Rule. 62 00:08:21,705.74766192 --> 00:08:22,95.74766192 Three. 63 00:08:22,605.74766192 --> 00:08:29,565.74766192 We commit to pray and serve peoples in conflict in the world so that the gospel of Jesus Christ might bring true peace to all peoples. 64 00:08:31,350.74766192 --> 00:08:45,540.74766192 As we gather for this historic Congress in ancient South Korea, we commit to pray for the peace and light of Christ to reign over the Korean peninsula and its people who are forcibly divided into the politically separated countries of North Korea and South Korea. 65 00:08:46,560.74766192 --> 00:08:52,500.74766192 This wrongful separation and the death and trauma of millions of civilians is known as the forgotten war. 66 00:08:53,730.74766192 --> 00:09:05,10.74766192 Despite the ceasefire of 1953, the conflict remains unresolved and instability continues to this day in a vicious cycle of reproachment, followed by escalating tensions. 67 00:09:05,580.74766192 --> 00:09:10,620.74766192 Nonetheless, we continue to pray that one day Korea and the Korean people will be one. 68 00:09:11,160.74766192 --> 00:09:22,440.74766192 We remember the great Pyongyang Revival of 1907 that took place among Koreans in the north and call for an end to the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters by the government of North Korea. 69 00:09:23,490.74766192 --> 00:09:40,680.74766192 We call the global church to pray that God may open a door for the restoration of long separated families, communities, and churches, and for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be boldly proclaimed and displayed without hindrance or fear in North Korea once more so that the whole peninsula might know the Lord. 70 00:09:41,370.74766192 --> 00:09:52,170.74766192 We call all Christians everywhere to intercede on behalf of those who face the horrors of war and conflict, to pray for the persecuted church, and to labor for peace among the peoples and nations of the world. 71 00:09:52,725.74766192 --> 00:10:03,525.74766192 As Christ peacemakers, we must build Christian communities that exemplify the peace of Christ and promote a culture of peace as a crucial outworking of our faith in and proclamation of the gospel. 72 00:10:04,155.74766192 --> 00:10:09,435.74766192 In this way, we declare and display Christ together in a world deeply wounded by conflicts. 73 00:10:10,942.06299525 --> 00:10:21,877.06299525 If you have enjoyed this reading of the Soul Statement and would like to engage further with our resources, then we invite you to visit our website@wwwanne.org.
.7476619151Section six of the Soul Statement the Family of Nations, the Peoples In Conflicts we see and serve for peace. 2 00:00:07,244.0809952484 --> 00:00:07,904.0809952484 Introduction. 3 00:00:08,460.7476619151 --> 00:00:17,220.747661915 The people of Christ must be known as a people of peace because the gospel we proclaim brings peace between God and individuals, between individuals and between peoples. 4 00:00:17,910.747661915 --> 00:00:18,180.747661915 God's. 5 00:00:18,180.747661915 --> 00:00:24,660.747661915 Purpose is to see diverse peoples flourish as they share their gifts and the Earth's resources in just and generous ways. 6 00:00:25,275.747661915 --> 00:00:35,175.747661915 We thank God for many examples of Christian communities and individuals who have embodied the Bible's consistent call to be at peace and to make peace in a world ridden with conflict. 7 00:00:35,745.747661915 --> 00:00:40,635.747661915 We honor them as those who champion the peace of Christ, even at the risk to their own reputations and lives. 8 00:00:41,205.747661915 --> 00:00:47,385.747661915 And yet the church has not always honored the peace of Christ as a defining quality of its existence in the world. 9 00:00:47,925.747661915 --> 00:00:52,725.747661915 There are historical examples of the church's involvement, whether explicit or tacit. 10 00:00:53,265.747661915 --> 00:01:08,865.747661915 In activities and enterprises that espouse violence and promote war, these amount to the scandalizing of the gospel, it proclaims What does Christ desire from his church? A people made up of all peoples called to declare and display Christ in a world torn by conflict. 11 00:01:10,665.747661915 --> 00:01:17,415.747661915 One, we affirm God's purpose in Christ to reconcile all peoples through the gospel in a world full of conflict. 12 00:01:19,215.747661915 --> 00:01:32,955.747661915 The Anne movement has played a key role in encouraging mission to unreached peoples in recognition of the need for individuals of every culturally distinct people to hear the good news of Gods saving rule overall peoples, and hence overall people. 13 00:01:33,915.747661915 --> 00:01:44,895.74766192 We pray for the day when states, nations in the modern sense that actively seek to prevent those they govern from hearing the good news and that persecute those who hear and believe will cease doing so. 14 00:01:45,420.74766192 --> 00:01:50,70.74766192 We pray this not only for the sake of the individuals, but of the peoples of which they are apart. 15 00:01:50,640.74766192 --> 00:01:55,890.74766192 Central to God's purposes through the gospel is the reconciliation of all peoples in Christ. 16 00:01:55,890.74766192 --> 00:02:08,310.74766192 In a relationship marked by mutual blessing, we affirm that this purpose of God can only be achieved as the hearts of individuals are transformed and filled with love for those whose cultural identity differs from their own. 17 00:02:09,195.74766192 --> 00:02:19,545.74766192 We rejoice together over the many situations in the world where severe conflict has waned and strange communities have received the opportunity for reconciliation and restoration of harmony. 18 00:02:20,355.74766192 --> 00:02:30,405.74766192 Some examples are the conflict in Northern Ireland, apartheid in South Africa, the Rwandan genocide, and the Sri Lankan Civil War among other conflicts around the world. 19 00:02:30,855.74766192 --> 00:02:32,655.74766192 We celebrate that in some of these settings. 20 00:02:33,15.74766192 --> 00:02:35,775.74766192 God used churches, Christian organizations. 21 00:02:36,210.74766192 --> 00:02:45,930.74766192 And individual Christians to champion the cause of peace, whether as frontline peacemakers between conflicting parties or through negotiation influence and intercession. 22 00:02:46,260.74766192 --> 00:02:58,320.74766192 In the background of the conflict, we are deeply saddened to note that several new armed conflicts and wars into ethnic inter religious and international have erupted in every region of the world. 23 00:02:58,920.74766192 --> 00:03:05,730.74766192 From over 100 current armed conflicts in the world, the regions of the Middle East and Africa have seen the highest concentration. 24 00:03:05,790.74766192 --> 00:03:19,290.74766192 At this point in time, the Russia, Ukraine War and the war in Gaza have received the most media attention, yet severe conflicts such as those in Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Ethiopia are hardly mentioned. 25 00:03:20,250.74766192 --> 00:03:25,290.74766192 We also acknowledge the forgotten wars around the world, especially the one on the Korean peninsula. 26 00:03:26,190.74766192 --> 00:03:29,640.74766192 Though they remain outta public view, they are seen by God. 27 00:03:30,270.74766192 --> 00:03:35,520.74766192 We grieve the tragic loss of life, these wars exact, and the massive destruction to societies. 28 00:03:36,210.74766192 --> 00:03:39,150.74766192 Deny future generations their opportunity to flourish. 29 00:03:41,400.74766192 --> 00:03:52,470.74766192 Two, we repent of our failures to condemn and restrain violence by remaining silent, by promoting nationalism or by unjustly supporting conflicts through deficient theological justification. 30 00:03:54,510.74766192 --> 00:04:01,830.74766192 We condemn those who use their influence in world affairs to promote avoidable conflicts and wars merely to further their economic and political interests. 31 00:04:02,340.74766192 --> 00:04:05,10.74766192 We are saddened by the immense suffering Their actions have caused. 32 00:04:05,475.74766192 --> 00:04:08,925.74766192 We believe that they will be held accountable before God on the day of judgment. 33 00:04:09,675.74766192 --> 00:04:13,455.74766192 We call all Christians to serve the vulnerable in context of war. 34 00:04:13,935.74766192 --> 00:04:22,905.74766192 By pooling our resources and supporting the relief efforts of churches and humanitarian organizations that are situated near conflict zones. 35 00:04:23,355.74766192 --> 00:04:33,345.74766192 We also commit to serve as peacemakers by supporting negotiations aimed at ending conflicts, and by calling for justice and reparation for the innocent victims of violence. 36 00:04:33,900.74766192 --> 00:04:45,330.74766192 Christians at various times in history have not only promoted violence and war, but also remained silent in the face of such atrocities, rather than speaking with prophetic integrity and courage. 37 00:04:45,900.74766192 --> 00:04:47,760.74766192 This is captured in the Cape Town commitment. 38 00:04:48,210.74766192 --> 00:05:00,630.74766192 We acknowledge with grief and shame the complicity of Christians in some of the most destructive context of ethnic violence and oppression, and the lamentable silence of large parts of the church when such conflicts take place. 39 00:05:01,65.74766192 --> 00:05:21,825.74766192 Such contexts include the history and legacy of racism and black slavery, the Holocaust against Jews, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, inter Christian sectarian violence, decimation of indigenous populations, political and ethnic violence, Palestinian suffering, cast oppression, and tribal genocide. 40 00:05:22,605.74766192 --> 00:05:25,755.74766192 We echo the Cape Town commitment in calling for repentance. 41 00:05:25,755.74766192 --> 00:05:29,745.74766192 For the many times, Christians have been complicit in such evils by silence. 42 00:05:30,120.74766192 --> 00:05:35,760.74766192 Apathy or presumed neutrality, or by providing defective theological justification for these. 43 00:05:36,360.74766192 --> 00:05:44,670.74766192 Much of this defective theological justification arises from a failure to distinguish between the nations of scripture and modern nation states. 44 00:05:44,940.74766192 --> 00:05:55,770.74766192 And from a failure to think biblically about nationality in scripture, nations were culturally distinct peoples whose identities were shaped by historical attachment to loosely defined territory. 45 00:05:56,490.74766192 --> 00:06:19,530.74766192 The worship of a God or Gods whose rule over a people was exercised through a king By contrast, nation states or nations in the modern sense are governments that administer internationally recognized political sovereignty by means of constitutionally ordered institutions and laws over territories with clearly demarcated borders, and the individuals and peoples who live within them. 46 00:06:20,70.74766192 --> 00:06:22,740.74766192 Most modern nation states govern multiple peoples. 47 00:06:23,235.74766192 --> 00:06:38,835.74766192 That is groups within their borders who do not derive their collective identity from nationality alone, but from ethnicity, race, country of origin, and the many other forms of collective identity that enrich the modern world in terms of identity. 48 00:06:39,195.74766192 --> 00:06:45,945.74766192 These culturally distinct groups are often closer to the peoples that formed the nations of scripture than to modern states. 49 00:06:46,485.74766192 --> 00:06:48,670.74766192 We affirm that every modern state is accountable. 50 00:06:49,95.74766192 --> 00:06:57,465.74766192 To the divine demand for the just and merciful treatment of both the individuals and peoples over whom it exercises sovereignty, as well as those of its neighbors. 51 00:06:58,65.74766192 --> 00:07:14,235.74766192 It is critically important that Christians think clearly about biblical peoples when they're associated by name, history, geography, or ancestry with modern nation states, for example, Israel, Egypt, Syria, and the peoples who live under the political sovereignty of these states. 52 00:07:14,625.74766192 --> 00:07:19,305.74766192 Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, cops, Jews, Armenians, Kurds, and many more. 53 00:07:20,145.74766192 --> 00:07:28,455.74766192 God is fulfilling his promises to all these peoples, both Jews and Gentiles, through the good news of Jesus, the Messiah in the Middle East and elsewhere. 54 00:07:28,785.74766192 --> 00:07:33,795.74766192 Christian leaders must work to correct theological errors that provide ideological justification. 55 00:07:34,125.74766192 --> 00:07:40,155.74766192 For unjust violence against innocent civilians or seek to legitimize violations of international humanitarian law. 56 00:07:40,305.74766192 --> 00:07:47,55.74766192 We lament that some Christians have looked to the state rather than the gospel as the key means for bringing about God's intentions for the world. 57 00:07:48,15.74766192 --> 00:08:03,45.74766192 This takes an especially regrettable form when wed to nationalism here, defined as the belief that every state should have a single national culture and no other, or ethnonationalism, which is the belief that every ethnic group should have its own state. 58 00:08:03,495.74766192 --> 00:08:05,55.74766192 This is a great evil in our world. 59 00:08:05,535.74766192 --> 00:08:11,355.74766192 We lament that many Christians have been sadly complicit in it, as well as in the claims of ethnic and racial supremacy. 60 00:08:11,355.74766192 --> 00:08:13,155.74766192 It fosters against this. 61 00:08:13,155.74766192 --> 00:08:19,845.74766192 We assert that no modern state is able to claim or will ever be able to claim to be the special agent of God's saving Rule. 62 00:08:21,705.74766192 --> 00:08:22,95.74766192 Three. 63 00:08:22,605.74766192 --> 00:08:29,565.74766192 We commit to pray and serve peoples in conflict in the world so that the gospel of Jesus Christ might bring true peace to all peoples. 64 00:08:31,350.74766192 --> 00:08:45,540.74766192 As we gather for this historic Congress in ancient South Korea, we commit to pray for the peace and light of Christ to reign over the Korean peninsula and its people who are forcibly divided into the politically separated countries of North Korea and South Korea. 65 00:08:46,560.74766192 --> 00:08:52,500.74766192 This wrongful separation and the death and trauma of millions of civilians is known as the forgotten war. 66 00:08:53,730.74766192 --> 00:09:05,10.74766192 Despite the ceasefire of 1953, the conflict remains unresolved and instability continues to this day in a vicious cycle of reproachment, followed by escalating tensions. 67 00:09:05,580.74766192 --> 00:09:10,620.74766192 Nonetheless, we continue to pray that one day Korea and the Korean people will be one. 68 00:09:11,160.74766192 --> 00:09:22,440.74766192 We remember the great Pyongyang Revival of 1907 that took place among Koreans in the north and call for an end to the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters by the government of North Korea. 69 00:09:23,490.74766192 --> 00:09:40,680.74766192 We call the global church to pray that God may open a door for the restoration of long separated families, communities, and churches, and for the gospel of Jesus Christ to be boldly proclaimed and displayed without hindrance or fear in North Korea once more so that the whole peninsula might know the Lord. 70 00:09:41,370.74766192 --> 00:09:52,170.74766192 We call all Christians everywhere to intercede on behalf of those who face the horrors of war and conflict, to pray for the persecuted church, and to labor for peace among the peoples and nations of the world. 71 00:09:52,725.74766192 --> 00:10:03,525.74766192 As Christ peacemakers, we must build Christian communities that exemplify the peace of Christ and promote a culture of peace as a crucial outworking of our faith in and proclamation of the gospel. 72 00:10:04,155.74766192 --> 00:10:09,435.74766192 In this way, we declare and display Christ together in a world deeply wounded by conflicts. 73 00:10:10,942.06299525 --> 00:10:21,877.06299525 If you have enjoyed this reading of the Soul Statement and would like to engage further with our resources, then we invite you to visit our website@wwwanne.org.
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