A Gentle Answer: Our 'Secret Weapon' in an Age of Us Against Them

by Scott Sauls

Perhaps greater works are the works done in our own lives through Jesus’ strength, such as loving one person for better and for worse, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, as long as we both shall live. Perhaps greater works include saying no to a doctor’s recommendation to abort a child with special needs and yes to raising and loving that child. Perhaps greater works include pursuing understanding, reconciliation, justice, peace, and friendship with people from another race, culture, political persuasion, economic group, or generation whom you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get along with outside of Christ. Perhaps greater works include staying at the same church for years or even decades, even during seasons of difficulty or decline. Or perhaps greater works include responding to injurious treatment with a gentle answer that turns away wrath.