In his exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says that Christians are a light to the world only to the degree that they stand out as different from the world. The world does not thirst for a religious imitation of its often-outraged self. Instead, the world thirsts for a different kind of neighbor, the kind that embodies in a most life-giving, countercultural fashion the following “Peace Prayer” from Saint Francis.
