1. In your own words, what does this passage teach us about lawsuits among Christians?
  2. Name some ways you tend to solve your conflicts through raw exercises of power. How does the gospel invite us to respond differently? 

Christians ought to endure injuries with patience.

John Calvin

For the sake of the kingdom, Jesus wants his disciples to give up their rights, interests, benefits and safeguards. … This is not saying that the kingdom of God consists in having no property, or in the absence of rights. … But it means that God’s kingdom represents something higher than a hierarchy of human values and interests, and that the “righteousness of the kingdom” teach us to subject everything to this.

Herman Ridderbos

What can wash away my sin? 
Nothing but the blood of Jesus! 

African American Spiritual

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