Overture on Nonviolence
One of the most exciting overtures before the 219th General Assembly, this overture from National Capital Presbytery begins,
To direct appropriate General Assembly Council staff, as well as to call on all congregations, to enter into a six-year “time of discernment” seeking clarity on whether God is calling at this historic moment us to embrace nonviolence as our fundamental response to war and terror. During this season of discernment, the entire church will be invited to study scripture and the history of the Christian Church’s response to violence, to engage in faithful direct action against violence, and to pray and labor with one another faithfully to develop a theology of nonviolence to guide us as we respond to the challenges of violence, terror and war in the 21st century.
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