JUSTICE LEAGUE!

NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD. 

What does the sword that Jesus brings do? It disrupts, it divides, it disturbs... the Peace. 

Peace and Order founded on war. The peace defined, justified, legislated and imposed by the powerful, propertied, and privileged. The peace built on the blood and bodies of the displaced, dispossessed, disenfranchised, and disemboweled. The peace inaugurated by the original Prince of Peace, Caesar Augustus. 

The peace where the father was head of the family and everyone was his property. The peace where the rich got richer and declared heaven-blessed, while the poor got worse and judged accursed and destined for hell! 

Historians tell us that Christians were never called peacemakers in the earliest days of the Jesus movement. They disrupted. They divided. They were disturbers of the Peace and Order of Rome. Like Jesus. 

Today, the powerful, propertied, and privileged keepers of Peace and Order tag these "disturbers" as criminals, rioters, militants, dissenters, communists, terrorists and, yes, enemies of the state! They remain faithful to the One who was executed as an enemy of the state.

Friends, I want to believe that we are followers of Jesus. The Prince of Peace based on Justice. We strive to be agents of genuine transformation. We dedicate our lives to help bring about shalom, life in all its fullness. We struggle with those whose only hope is God. 

We are, therefore, members of the peace based on justice league!

*image, "The Time Jesus Started a Riot," copyright, Brendan Powell Smith, from Reboot (WordPress).