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Outline

Hook: Which is more important - truth or love?

I. PEACE-MAKING
"In a chronically anxious system, the leader is the person who can be separate while still remaining connected, and therefore can maintain a modifying, non-anxious, and sometimes challenging presence." - Edwin Friedman

II. THE DEADLY SIN OF WRATH
"Wrath is the love of justice perverted into the desire for revenge and for the injury of someone else; justice is the proclaimed motive for every manifestation of Wrath.” – Henry Fairlie

III. FAMILY RESEMBLANCE
"We are not at peace with others because we are not a peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.” – Thomas Merton

Takeaway: “We decide to look at others, whatever their position, whoever they are, not as rivals to beat out but as brothers and sisters to love into wholeness.” - Eugene Peterson

Resources

• Edwin Friedman, Failure of Nerve
• Mark Sayers, A Non-Anxious Presence
• Charles Spurgeon, The Beatitudes
• Will Willimon, Sinning Like a Christian