All right, friends, today we're talking about, is it wrong for Christians to support war?

I'm so glad that we're addressing subjects like this.

Recently, we talked about the death penalty, and I think that's good.

We need to discuss things like that.

And I think one of the things that people appreciated was that in that episode in particular,

and we do this all the time, we share the fact that we may have different views on things,

but that's the beauty of the body of Christ.

You know, that when it comes to secondary issues, there can be charity in that.

There can be latitude where we say, look, this is not an essential issue.

We may hold our views tenaciously and feel strongly about them, but there has to be a grace

that's involved to say, look, these are not essentials. And so while we can even debate them

and, and, you know, in a spirited way, at the end of the day, we need to have that gracious,

heart, and attitude. And we've talked before about pacifism,

or self-defense, rather, but we wanna talk,

and we can talk about things related to it,

but we wanna, yeah, talk about war,

because it's a big thing, and it's important topic to tackle.

It's important to just recognize,

in the first 300 years, there is this instinct against bloodshed,

but it's not historically accurate to say the church was totally against war because again,

you also have examples of people in the early church praying for positive outcomes and

participating in non-combatant ways something different happens post nicene shift remember

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