Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world. (relevantmagazine.com)
Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only with «bold Christian witness in leading sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.» (firstthings.com)
The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying. (religion-online.org)