Sermon
Seeking Peace
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
March 20, 2023 · 42 min
Summary
Jacob's reconciliation with Esau (Genesis 33) illustrates how experiencing peace with God motivates seeking peace with others. The sermon extracts four principles—courage, humility, restitution, and accepting life-stage differences—and motivates peacemaking through our calling, witness to the lost, and the peace Christ purchased for us.
Highlights
Don't be a cow. Be the buffalo. When you see conflict and you know it's there, just have the conversation. Oftentimes we maximize the amount of pain and emotional stress in conflict because we just won't deal with it.
If it contains an if, it ain't a confession. I'm sorry if I've done something to upset you means I don't think I've actually done anything you should be upset about.
The gospel says something way worse about me than you're currently saying about me. And yet at the same time, it fills me with extraordinary security that no matter how this person responds, I am loved and valued and accepted by the one person who really matters.