It has not cooperated with the International Criminal Court (ICC) cases on charges against the president and four other men, of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur.Ĭonflict and Abuses in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue NileĪlthough in July Sudan extended its unilateral ceasefire in conflict zones until the end of the year, its forces, including the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, attacked over a dozen villages in the Jebel Mara region of Darfur between March and May. Sudan has made no meaningful attempt to provide accountability for past or current abuses in conflict zones or other serious human rights violations. Amen.Amid Sudan’s ongoing economic crisis, President al-Bashir reshuffled the government twice and the ruling National Congress Party endorsed him to run for another term in 2020. Wherever I am, Lord, in my workplace or my community, in my family or my church, in private or in public, may I seek your peace. Give me the ability to say what is right without needing to win. In these times, help me to be humble and wise. Yes, there will be times when conflict is inevitable, times even when I need to raise issues that might create relational tension. Help me to be one who seeks and extends your peace instead. PRAYER: Dear Lord, keep me from philoneikia. QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER REFLECTION: Are there times when you have been a strife-lover? When? Why? How can you become one who seeks the peace of God in your relationships? With a vision of God’s peace before us, there is no room for self-satisfied strife-loving in the community of Jesus. We’re to turn the other cheek and walk the second mile. But, in general, we who follow Christ are to be peacemakers. To be sure, there are times when we need to stand up for what is true, times when we have no option besides strife. It energizes him and gives him a sense of his own self-righteousness. But I also think there is something in his spirit that thrives on conflict. But, the truth is, my friend likes a good argument. Yes, some of this has not been his fault.
He has had more fights with his church members than any other pastor I know personally. They were, at least in this setting, what could be described as “strife-lovers.” In classical Greek, philoneikia meant “love of strife” or “contentiousness.” The word combines the Greek word philos , meaning “friend” or “lover” with the word neikos (or neikia ) which means “quarrel, strife, feud.” By using philoneikia , Luke not only describes the facts-the disciples were -arguing but also shows us something of their spirits. Our translation says that the disciples of Jesus “began to argue among themselves.” The original language reads more literally, “And then a philoneikia happened among them.” Philoneikia can be translated as “argument” or “dispute.” But the word suggests something more than a contest of ideas. Such is the case with a word in Luke 22:24. Some of these surprising words turn out to be provocative. I’m afraid the last thirty years have stolen some of my graduate school Greek vocabulary from my brain. Yet, every now and then, I come upon a word that I can’t remember seeing before. This means that I have read every word in the Greek New Testament at least once. This was necessary preparation for my oral Greek exam, in which I would be asked to translate any New Testament passage on the spot, without access to a lexicon or other tools. When I was in graduate school, I had to read through the entire New Testament in Greek. Then they began to argue among themselves about who would be the greatest among them.
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