No Voice Was Heard

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P 110 “And from the Church, no voice was heard.�  I pray that it not be so in our generation.  I don’t want the next generation to read books of atrocities now and ask, ‘Where were the Christians?  Why didn’t they do something?’

This book is a great testimony of Elias Chacour’s commitment to peace for the Kingdom’s sake.  “Peace can never be achieved by violence, violence begets violence.�  Besides the overall theme of working for reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians in the Holy Land, this book brings the story of a man’s life in vivid storytelling fashion. 

Some notable quotes:

“studying the Bible as if it were a textbook was very unsatisfying.  The sense of Jesus’ presence, whether real or imagined, had always been so vivid…I longed for the days when I had felt His presence in the wild places.�

“For the first time I stood face-to-face with the unbending rules of the Church as an institution.  I could not understand why strict obedience to a rule was more important than a heart seeking God.�

“The momentum carried us out of the church and into the streets where true Christianity belongs.�

This is the story of a wise man (Matthew 7:26) who made it his life’s work to put into practice the words of Jesus (Matthew 5:3-12).