In "The Christian Leader," Don Ratzlaff retells a story Vernon Grounds came across in Ernest Gordon'sMiracle on the River Kwai. The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to barbarous behavior, but one afternoon something happened. A...
taking a human life. You can't love your enemies and be a soldier. Peacemakers are the sons of God; soldiers are just the opposite of that. War also requires deceiving the enemy, which is antithetical to the truth-telling required of a Christian. One can't possibly imagine Jesus fighting...