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Overview

The following 7-week course will help you and your group think about important and intensely controversial questions that surround war, persecution, and peace like:

• Where in our congregation’s life might we be called to practice more peacemaking?
  
• Has your peace of mind been shattered during this time of terrorism and war?
  
• What can we do about human rights abuses in our world?
  
• What is the "just war" theory and is it appropriate for a nation to ever strike first?
  
• How can you be a peacemaker in your family, church, community, and country?
  

Week One

Should Christians Risk Life for Peace?
Caught between rebels, paramilitaries, and toxic spray, peacemaking Christians put their lives on the line in violent Colombia.

Week Two

Finding Peace in a Time of War
What we can learn from Oswald Chambers and C.S. Lewis about the long battle with terrorism.

Week Three

Resurrection Triumph over Terrorism
Living and dying—and living again—after September 11.

Week Four

Persecuting Christians in the Middle East
What can we do about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia?

Week Five

War Against Iraq: Is It Just?
Is it ever appropriate for a nation to strike first?

Week Six

The Sword of Peace
This kind of peace may surpass even our understanding.

Week Seven

Your View of War
Making sense of how Christians differ on military intervention.

Total number of pages - 89 pages

You have permission to make up to 1,000 copies for use in your local church.