All of our hope and joy and peace rests on this solid foundation. For the Christian, there is more to the cross than personal salvation. Christians have an awesome responsibility in a deeply divided world because God has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Everywhere we look, we are hit in the face with fighting. Marriages end in bitter quarrels in which children are emotionally beaten.
Industry grinds to a halt in labor feuds.
Cities and nations bleed with racial strife. Nations crush life and breath out of other nations. Worldly men and women employ the only means they know in their attempts to bring peace. If that won't work, pressure is taken to its natural extreme -violence. We end up shooting one another in the cause of reconciliation.