The churches of Kentucky have periodically reminded ourselves that the ministry Jesus gives is one of reconciliation, and that our call to be peacemakers is one that has to transform our hearts and minds as well as our world. On once such occasion, the Council passed the following resolution. We offer it humbly as a model that could be borrowed and encourage you to use it wherever it may be appropriate and helpful:
That Which Makes for Peace
WHEREAS, Jesus breaks down the dividing wall of hostility (Ephesians 2:14) and weeps that we do not know “the things that make for peace” (Luke 19:41-42) and we confess that we are often complacent or uninformed about injustice, violence, and exclusion of others, both in our communities and in the world; and
WHEREAS, the church has a prophetic mission to live out Christ’s way of peace (Luke 1:79), and to express God’s steadfast love in all our relationships (Psalm 85:10-13) and we confess that we struggle in our own congregations and church structures with racism, domestic violence, destructive communication, and many forms of sin and violence; and
WHEREAS the 58th Annual Assembly of the Kentucky Conference of Churches takes note of the large number of current and impending violent conflicts throughout God's world, and
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Rev. Tanya TylerThe Council invites your participation in a study process that ends May 30th. Since August we have been using a draft policy statement on racism in hopes of improving it. Please contact Jeanie Hartman for copies of the draft at 859-269-7715 or by email. The deadline for input to affect the final draft is May 30.
Rev. Eric Mount
March 28, 2011