Episode 28: Don’t retaliate
An eye-for-eye kind of retaliation may seem fair, but in his teaching about righteousness, Jesus calls his hearers to something higher. He asks them to forgo retaliation. We must be careful here, for in saying this Jesus is not teaching that Christians should ignore injustice. But he wants his hearers to have a vision for how the pursuit of shalom is radically different from the world’s way of thinking.
