““Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth,” Jesus tells a shocked crowd. “I have not come to bring peace but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). The peacemaking Jesus intends for the disciples to invite conflict in every area of our lives. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus models this in a life of making enemies.”
–Melissa Florer-Bixler, How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, p. 115
