Please consider inviting all your facebook friends to Bless Those Who Curse You Campaign page as well as the our first Bless Those Who Curse You Day on Oct. 15 (details on the facebook event page).
In just two weeks, we are asking christians to proactively live out Jesus' call to love one's enemies, bless those who curse you, and being peacemakers. The same week, there will be a syncroblog effort on the same topic (see facebook page for details, and participate!)
We hope to grow this campaign, and partner with all kinds of Christians who will take this challenge both individually and corporately. (Website coming soon.)
For our first event, we ask you to carry out an individual act of kindness to someone who has personally wounded or wronged you, or perhaps, someone you yourself have wronged or wounded.
We also ask you (especially those of you who are in charge of or have influence over, churches, youth groups, bible studies, cohorts, schools, or other organizations) to partner with these groups to conspire collective acts of kindness together. We encourage groups to conversate and pinpoint a person/or group they perceive to be "against" them and reach out to that person/group with creative acts of love and generosity. Or we ask groups to examine their own attitudes toward others, and pinpoint a peson/group they may have condemned, judged, treated unfairly, stereotyped, or hold bitter biases against, and reach out to that person/group with tangible acts of kindness, generosity, gentleness and love.
This is a creative endeavor that requires humility, vulnerability, and radical commitment to the way of Christ. We hope that by "loving our enemies,' we will discover that we truly have none. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers...
Join us. Invite Others. Get Involved. Tell Us Your Story.
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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