True overcoming

A peace ethic committed to loving all, including one’s enemies, does not respond to militaristic demands as others do. Instead of appealing to rights or demanding justice, Jesus calls kingdom people to decode the system and deconstruct its ways of power by surrendering to the power in a way that removes their teeth and grinding. It is the way of Jesus, after all: he surrendered over and over to the powers, exposed and absorbed their vicious ways on the cross, overcame them into a new life for his followers on Easter Sunday, and empowered them for kingdom living on Pentecost.—Scot McKnight, The Audacity of Peace, 53