Title: What does it mean to turn the other cheek?
Luke: 6:27-29

Jesus teaches we are to love our enemies and that if someone strikes us on the cheek we are to offer the other one.  What does this mean?  Does Jesus expect us to be doormats?  Is this a call to total pacifism?  If we are attacked are we to do nothing?

Rev. John Arnold discusses how this commandment isn’t really about threats on our physical well-being. Rather instead, Jesus is talking about interactions that are demeaning or offensive.  Second, Rev. he shares how turning the other cheek, really is about striving to stay in relationship at the risk of possible further offense.  Rev. Arnold brings to life these lesson by relating them to events that were recently in the news.

Lastly, he presents how each of is an enemy of God and deserve retribution but receive grace, that God offers to us again and again another cheek.  God is a god of second chance and as forgiving people we should give second chances as well.

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