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| Image: The Pharisee and the Publican |
When racial discrimination and other forms of social injustice abound on every hand, it is the Christian’s duty to set forth the way of love which does justice to all men, regardless of station, color, race, or creed. As Edward Yoder has said, When the nation errs, in this and in other ways, the Christian citizen rightly may “feel a genuine sorrow and express genuine repentance and confession for the sins of his national community. As did Daniel and Nehemiah and other prophets in Israel, so should Christians feel moved to confess the sins of the nation of which they are a part. To stand aloof in a self-righteous manner and assert that the sins and evils of the community are not our responsibility seems just a little like the action of the Pharisee who prayed in the Temple and proudly thanked God that he was not as bad as some other people.”*
Guy Franklin Hershberger,
War, Peace, & Nonresistance (p. 170)
*Edward Yoder, “The Obligation of the Christian to the State and Community,”
Mennonite Quarterly Review (April 1939)
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