There is a big difference between the "peacemaker" and the "peacekeeper." The peacemaker gets to the root of the problem to fix it. The peacekeeper will compromise important things to make only an appearance of peace, nothing actually gets fixed.
The peacemaker has a difficult time in our culture today because the culture is bent on sweeping everything under the rug pretending the problem does not exist. The dirt is still there just unseen.
Or the culture likes to change the definition of terms to make the offensive things sound like positive things.
This just may be the hardest time for a Christian to be alive. When in the company of the world we expect the unbelievers to be unable to understand Biblical matters. But now we have many people who say they are Christians unable to understand things from a Biblical perspective. They will even argue and fight to defend sin as though it did not sin.
Even if a Christian knows the truth of right from wrong they will be offended that we spoke it to someone who chooses to be offended by our words.
Many people now, Christians as well as pagans, are offended at the slightest hint of disagreement or correction. The Christian now either walks on eggshells all the time to be accepted or they are rejected by most people for not walking on eggshells.
Ephesians 4:25
"Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another."
John 8:32
"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has nothing to do with the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
2 Timothy 2:15
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."
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