Luke, Chapter 22, Verse 1-2
1
Now the feast of Unleavened Bread,
called the Passover, was drawing near, 2 and the chief priests and the scribes were
seeking a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.
Fear is the eighth deadly sin and the Jewish authorities were
absolutely controlled by fear.
Naturally when fear rules your life you instinctively run or fight. They chose
the death of one man to save the people, which was their rationalization to
have Christ killed. Judas was their answer. The Jewish authorities’ leadership
failed miserably out of self-deception.
The anatomy of peace: resolving the heart of conflict[1]
Leadership and
Self-Deception is simple: people whose hearts are at peace do not wage war,
whether they're heads of state or members of a family. In this semi-fictional
narrative ("inspired by actual events") illustrating the principles
of achieving peace, the setting is a two-day parent workshop at an
Arizona-based wilderness camp for out-of-control teenagers, but the storyline is
a mere setting for an instruction manual. Workshop facilitators Yusuf al-Falah,
a Palestinian Arab whose father was killed by Israelis in 1948, and Avi Rozen,
an Israeli Jew whose father died in the Yom Kippur War, use examples from their
domestic lives and the history of their region to illustrate situations in
which the normal and necessary routines of daily life can become fodder for
conflict. Readers observe this through the eyes of one participant, a father
whose business is in nearly as much trouble as his teenage son. The usefulness
of the information conveyed here on how conflicts take root, spread and can be
resolved more than compensates for the pedestrian writing.
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