The Highest of All Mountains: A Guide for Christians Seeking Peace and Becoming

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This book is for people who believe that the gospel is a message of peace and this gospel of peace is relevant for our time. Peacemaking is a core part of our Christian discipleship just as we learn how to pray, just as we learn how to love our neighbors, just as we learn how to feed the hungry. We can also learn how to be peacemakers. Sarpiya believes that peacemaking is central to the Christian faith and practice. This book will serve as a guide that will offer a scriptural guide with practical stories and applications. Readers will be challenged by Scripture to take the call to peacemaking into their communities. The fact that numerous peace treaties have collapsed serves to show how difficult it is to transcend cycles of violence and foster a sustained, durable peace. The one place that one could look to for answers about how to move toward peace is within faith communities, and sometimes not just one faith acting alone but working alongside other faiths, in concert with other faiths, taking an interreligious approach. The Highest of All Mountains shows how Sarpiya's Christian peacemaking backed by the interreligious approach brings the monotheistic faiths together, as they all agreed on one denominator to their faith's origin, Abraham.

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Samuel K. Sarpiya, peacemaker, preacher, and teacher, is the former moderator of Church of the Brethren and cofounder of the Center for Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation, Rockford, Illinois. Samuel is married to Gretchen Sarpiya; together they are blessed with three beautiful daughters, Anna, Ella Joy, and Deborah (Bo). Drawing from Jesus' teaching on nonviolence and peace, Samuel is passionate about the intersection between peacemaking and the Gospels as taught by Jesus Christ.

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"Pastor, peace practitioner, and scholar Samuel Sarpiya has given us more than another biblical basis of peacemaking book. The Highest of All Mountains brings biblical narratives into creative and constructive engagement with the lived stories of peacebuilding and conflict transformation embodied in Sarpiya's church and city. The linking of radical hospitality and the Jesus path to peace is especially instructive. As a Nigerian, South African, the author brings intercultural hermeneutics and his cosmopolitan affections together in an important theology of shalom."--Scott Holland, Slabaugh Professor of Theology & Culture and Director of Peace Studies, Bethany Theological Seminary"Peacemaking taken to another level while anchoring it in everyday life! The Highest of All Mountains is as timely as it is timeless. This may be one of the most visionary books written today that gives us a potential map for how we can individually and collectively navigate our way through a world where the marginalized continue to suffer from our structures and beliefs, towards a more intentionally beloved community where we work creatively to address injustice while compassionately uplifting each other. . . . This should be read alongside Dr. Martin Luther King's Strength to Love and Gene Sharp's How Nonviolent Struggle Works."--Nicholas Patler, author of Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century"If you are awakening to the journey of peacemaking, nonviolence, and conflict transformation in the way of Jesus please get this book! Samuel Sarpiya is a practical, insightful, and trustworthy guide who helps us see our capacity for participating in the transformation of our neighborhoods. The stories in this book unveil faithful, healthy, and effective ways to disrupt the cycles of violence that plague our society."--Drew Hart, Assistant Professor of Theology, Messiah University, and author of Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance"Peacemaking is at the center of belief and practice as Jesus followers. The way towards transformation of communities is through recognition of where there is conflict, unsustainable structures, and personal prideful bias. Samuel has offered wise and insightful correlations of research, historical storytelling, and personal lived experiences within communities where reform has taken place that has led to peacemaking. The questions at the end of each chapter offer opportunities to engage in the next step that is needed individually to take part in reconciliation work in relationships and communities. This work of peacemaking is essential to caring for one another in a compassionate way."--Julia Hurlow, Director of Discipleship, Taylor University"Current global realties have brought to surface national issues worthy of discerning evaluation and transformation. Dr. Sarpiya's prophetic work invites us to radical hospitality practices among 'the feared' and creativity in areas our assumptions could leave us blinded to. If embodied, his insights could shift the trajectory of aspects of our culture from death to Life. . . . Do yourself and your neighbor a favor, read and enact these words. Bear witness then to Christ's love; heal the unalterably broken."--Hans Oines, Christian missionary, Youth with A Mission (YWAM)"As a peace practitioner for over twenty years, I only wish this book had been written over twenty years ago! It is amazingly balanced in its approach to peace and healing. It is immensely practical. It is also very biblical and historically orthodox."--Kayode Bolaji, Executive Director, Peace Building Development Founda

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"Pastor, peace practitioner, and scholar Samuel Sarpiya has given us more than another biblical basis of peacemaking book. The Highest of All Mountains brings biblical narratives into creative and constructive engagement with the lived stories of peacebuilding and conflict transformation embodied in Sarpiya''s church and city. The linking of radical hospitality and the Jesus path to peace is especially instructive. As a Nigerian, South African, the author brings intercultural hermeneutics and his cosmopolitan affections together in an important theology of shalom." --Scott Holland, Slabaugh Professor of Theology & Culture and Director of Peace Studies, Bethany Theological Seminary "Peacemaking taken to another level while anchoring it in everyday life! The Highest of All Mountains is as timely as it is timeless. This may be one of the most visionary books written today that gives us a potential map for how we can individually and collectively navigate our way through a world where the marginalized continue to suffer from our structures and beliefs, towards a more intentionally beloved community where we work creatively to address injustice while compassionately uplifting each other. . . . This should be read alongside Dr. Martin Luther King''s Strength to Love and Gene Sharp''s How Nonviolent Struggle Works ." --Nicholas Patler, author of Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century "If you are awakening to the journey of peacemaking, nonviolence, and conflict transformation in the way of Jesus please get this book! Samuel Sarpiya is a practical, insightful, and trustworthy guide who helps us see our capacity for participating in the transformation of our neighborhoods. The stories in this book unveil faithful, healthy, and effective ways to disrupt the cycles of violence that plague our society." --Drew Hart, Assistant Professor of Theology, Messiah University, and author of Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God''s Justice, Love, and Deliverance "Peacemaking is at the center of belief and practice as Jesus followers. The way towards transformation of communities is through recognition of where there is conflict, unsustainable structures, and personal prideful bias. Samuel has offered wise and insightful correlations of research, historical storytelling, and personal lived experiences within communities where reform has taken place that has led to peacemaking. The questions at the end of each chapter offer opportunities to engage in the next step that is needed individually to take part in reconciliation work in relationships and communities. This work of peacemaking is essential to caring for one another in a compassionate way." --Julia Hurlow, Director of Discipleship, Taylor University "Current global realties have brought to surface national issues worthy of discerning evaluation and transformation. Dr. Sarpiya''s prophetic work invites us to radical hospitality practices among ''the feared'' and creativity in areas our assumptions could leave us blinded to. If embodied, his insights could shift the trajectory of aspects of our culture from death to Life. . . . Do yourself and your neighbor a favor, read and enact these words. Bear witness then to Christ''s love; heal the unalterably broken." --Hans Oines, Christian missionary, Youth with A Mission (YWAM) "As a peace practitioner for over twenty years, I only wish this book had been written over twenty years ago! It is amazingly balanced in its approach to peace and healing. It is immensely practical. It is also very biblical and historically orthodox." --Kayode Bolaji, Executive Director, Peace Building Development Foundation, Nigeria " The Highest of All Mountains presents revealing insights into man''s understanding of conflict and his approach to resolving it. But, in lucid details, the author exposes man''s inherent weakness and lack of capacity to deal with it in a selfless, sacrificial manner. Showing us the way out, the author takes the reader to passages in the Bible and points at the life of Jesus of Nazareth which, according to him, exemplifies the highest ethos in man''s search for peaceful co-existence." --John Tsok, lawyer, Jos, Nigeria "Dr. Sarpiya''s book comes against the backdrop of continuous racial tensions in the part of the world he has chosen to live in. But the theme he explores resonates with other climates across the world. Whether it is the rude awakening in Jos, central Nigeria, the delicate reconciliation process in South Africa, or his community engagements in Rockford, USA, the book acknowledges the terrible strain on intercommunal relations. And when he takes the reader through very difficult moments that make peaceful coexistence a distant possibility, he also provides biblical precepts that can be employed to deal with obstacles to achieving it. A compelling read, this book points the way to peace and reconciliation in a world that needs it." --Wulime Goyit, media professional, Jos, Nigeria "In this book, Dr. Sarpiya describes in a sober and effective way how conflicts, either coming from racism, religious or social roots, can affect communities and whole nations in ways that divide populations into impassable trenches. . . . The author demonstrates with care how conflict transformation and peacemaking can, by the grace of God, be an efficient solution to ending years of mistrust and conflict between the different layers of society. . . . This is a book for those who believe that significant changes can be operated in a community by working and pursuing peace as it was thought by the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, as he taught it in his Sermon on the Mount." --Eric Leblanc, Pastor, Cowansville Connection Church, Quebec, Canada

Details ISBN1725270277 Short Title The Highest of All Mountains Pages 164 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1725270277 ISBN-13 9781725270275 Format Paperback Subtitle A Guide for Christians Seeking Peace and Becoming Peacemakers Publication Date 2021-03-18 UK Release Date 2021-03-18 Author Roger S. Nam Publisher Wipf & Stock Publishers Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-03-18 NZ Release Date 2021-03-18 US Release Date 2021-03-18 Imprint Wipf & Stock Publishers Audience General Place of Publication Eugene We've got this

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