Look who is coming for dinner

Pastor Dawn guides us through a teaching on the cost and calling of peacemaking in deeply divided societies. The message invites the church to consider how the way of Jesus forms a different kind of people—those who refuse retaliation, pursue reconciliation, and embody the peace of Christ even when it is costly.

The sermon emphasizes that peacemaking is not abstract or sentimental but grounded in discipleship. The church is called to be a visible community shaped by the cross, where enemies are reconciled and divisions are healed. Rather than mirroring the polarization of the surrounding culture, followers of Jesus are invited into practices of humility, listening, forgiveness, and courageous love. In a cultural moment marked by conflict, the church’s witness is found not in winning arguments, but in becoming a people who live out the reconciling work of Christ.