Walter Wink & Nonviolence

“The issue is not, “What must I do in order to secure my salvation?” but rather, “What does God require of my in response to the needs of others?” It is not, “How can I be virtuous?” But “How can I participate in the struggle of the oppressed for a more just world?” Otherwise our nonviolence is premised on self-justifying attempts to establish our own purity in the eyes of God, others and ourselves, and that is nothing less than a satanic temptation to die with clean hands and a dirty heart.”

- Walter Wink, exerpt from Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way, pg. 6

~bh ><>