1. Don't commit injustice
2. Don't get revenge when someone commits injustice against you
3. Don't respond in kind to injustice, but remain peaceful (tranquil)
4. Make yourself vulnerable to loss (don't be stingy)
5. Respond to injustice with generosity
6. Refuse to hate the one who has wronged you (i.e., your enemy)
7. Love the one who has wronged you
8. Do good to/for the one who has wronged you
9. Pray to God for the one who has wronged you
FYI, these are my paraphrases of what Chrysostom is saying. Each one builds on the last and goes farther from the bare minimum and farther toward what Jesus is asking of us in the passages we have been looking at.
I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:
This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App
Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.
Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.
Enjoy!
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
