Don't Wanna Fight

The second song for Finding God on Your iPod 2015 is "Don't Wanna Fight" by Alabama Shakes. We live in a combative age. It’s constantly modeled for us and if we're not careful we'll pick it up like a bad habit. If the church takes on a combative spirit, it has capitulated to the spirit of the age. To be Christian is not to be combative in the name of Jesus, but to be something else entirely. If the church is to be a city set on a hill, a light shining in a dark place, then we must turn away from the combative and turn toward the contemplative.

Jesus was a fighter, but his weapon was not a whip or a sword or a gun or a nuke. His weapon was a cross. On the cross Jesus laid down his life forgiving his enemies. His weapon was love, his weapon was forgiveness, his weapon was faith. And having seen Jesus on the cross forgiving his enemies…I don’t wanna fight no more.