I just Googled peace prize and gospel treyvon (among other searches), checking for recent (last 24 hours) news stories.
From what I could tell, no Nobel Peace Prize winner has stepped up to knock down the fires since my post yesterday, Calling Peace Prize Laureates. (Or before, for that matter.)
Nor could I see any evidence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ being offered as applicable to the race mess that continues to burble and gurgle.
Why not?!
Wait. Maybe the Gospel solutions are being offered…but they just aren’t getting much of any press. That makes sense as a likely explanation.
Another likely explanation is that you don’t offer the ways of the Cross to those who are not in that way already. (That said, though, no man who would offer the ways of the Cross to Christians should offer some lesser way to unbelievers.)
That aside, though, if you are a Christian, what would you offer?
I have a restricted list of possibilities to suggest:
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).
“For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you” (Matthew 7:2).
“Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it” (Psalm 34:14).
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7).
“Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you” (Hosea 10:12).
“Who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously” (1 Peter 2:23).
So, a closing plea to church leaders (red, brown, yellow, black, white — who cares?!) across America, speak up as faithful ambassadors of the heavenly kingdom and as godly ministers of reconciliation.