Comments on: Love Your Enemies http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Stefan Byron http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-15616 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:12:36 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-15616 If ‘GOD’ is all there is…………….who are the enemies??

Before we learn how to understand the statement ‘Love your enemies’ we may wish to look at the conflict that is occurring within us. How can we begin to learn how to Love our enemies….if we have yet to learn how to bring about harmony within ourselves?

ALL there is……is LOVE…but remember LOVE destroys…in order to release Itself….

]]> By: Arthur Kanegis http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-762 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:02:48 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-762 The Talmud teaches: “Who is mighty? He who turns an enemy into his friend” (ARN xxIII)
When Jesus taught “love your enemies” he was not preaching submission. He was giving us the most powerful weapon. Violence is weak and ineffective. Take a look at the new website I created, http://www.bullyproof.org which uses puppetry, drama and song to teach kids how to win without intimidation.
• Watch the video of kids with sticky fingers and glue making giant puppets for a play that teaches them how to BullyProof themselves and resolve conflicts peacefully.
• See the dramatic teen video of gang kids performing a life-changing rap ‘n roll opera that models a new way of interacting with the world.
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“Whenever I got mad, all my years of conflict-resolution training used to go right out the window. Now I use BULLYPROOF to anchor my training. I think, ‘B; – How can I Bust out of this conflict and come at it another way? ‘U’ Understand — what is triggering my hot buttons? And theirs? ‘L’ Am I Listening? Etc. By the time I get to “F” my Fear and anger are gone and I’m able to handle the situation rationally.”
— Diane LaResche who taught conflict resolution at George Mason University.
Warmly,
Arthur Kanegis
President
Future WAVE (Working for Alternatives to Violence through Entertainment)
info@bullyproof.org
“Who is the mightiest of heroes? He who makes an enemy into his friend” – Talmud

]]> By: Steph http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-761 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:09:11 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-761 and, looking back again at your questions reminds me of a conference I was at last December where we were gathered in worship during the time that Saddam Hussein was being executed. The leader announced what was going on, and in a stadium with about 10,000 people, a few started to cheer over his execution. Dwayne, who was leading, quickly stopped everything and said that no, our purpose for bringing this up was to pray for him. So for about an hour we interceded for his soul, for the church in the region, and for God’s will to be done in forgiveness and mercy in the hearts of those hurt by Saddam’s leadership. I thought that was wonderful . . . a reminder of “loving your enemies and praying for those who persecute you.”

]]> By: Steph http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-760 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:03:34 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-760 I LOVE those posters. I think that’s a lot of the way Jesus loved to teach, by taking someone (or a group of someones) that were utterly hated and calling out what was good in them, or pointing out God’s love for them. Right on.

]]> By: evan http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-759 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:36:45 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-759 great stuff.
im burning your feed.

]]> By: Bet http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295&cpage=1#comment-758 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:38:22 +0000 http://www.myworshiprevolution.com/?p=295#comment-758 This is a great post, Bobby. Great timing.
This week, Erik and I are teaching Sunday school for the kids at church. Our church is small, so it is K thru 5th grades. It is a challenge to come up with lessons that apply to the whole age range.
The series they are on right now is missions. All of the adults who have been on missions trips are coming in and talking about the people they went to minister to. We were asked to do a week. It is this Sunday.
As Erik and I thought about it, we thought about what would we most want a 2nd grader to know about the Muslims in their class. Reality is that there could be Muslim kids right next to them each day. We want them to learn to love them. At first, we thought the theme could be “love your enemies.” But really, that is a better theme for the church service than for Sunday school. Kids don’t really know that Muslims are “enemies”. They pick that idea up from the world – mostly from adults. We want to teach them to ” love your neighbor” instead. We want them to know that Muslims are their neighbors. So we are going to make Valentines Day cards for Muslim kids and talk about how they are kids just like us. They just have a different belief in who Jesus is.
It strikes me that kids don’t really know what an enemy is. They really have to learn about that. I hope that they get just as many adults teaching them that Muslims are not their enemies as adults who make them afraid of them. Somehow I feel that the scale is tipped far too much to one side.
Adults – Love your enemies. Kids – Love your neighbors. If only…

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