Ethics In The Peaceable Kingdom

Ethics reflects on a special time and place. Although ethics involve activity that relates to different times, places, races, and communities, it can be forgotten and ignored. Ethics is a theory or a system of moral values and right conduct. Ethics are the very cornerstone that the church stands upon for right living and is a barrier from right and wrong. From the time that we were born into the world, many of us have been taught ethics in some form or another.

Every Christian is on a moral quest for virtue and character. As Christians, we know when we are persons of character and when we are not. Ethics is about character and virtue. Christians have long struggled with the ethics of Jesus, whose ethical teachings, since He was the son of God, must therefore be taken seriously. In history and in this present age, Christians are asking the question of how to discern and do the right thing in various ethical dilemmas? Being that the world is multi-cultural and multi-faith based? In “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Stanley Hauerwas states, that people think what was

at one time unthinkable; indeed, they do what was once unthinkable.
I believe that when we start our journey as Christians we must keep reading and studying the word of God that we would be shaped into character and virtue.

After all, this is what we all have been called for when we are born again in Jesus. We must be people of integrity in a chaotic world where wrong can easily be presented as right by the media, technology as well as world leaders. Hauerwas observes that Christian ethics is being called to exist in a fragmented and violent world. Absolutes are still needed in a world that has largely discarded them. It is more evident than ever that the world we live in, for the most part, does not have honorable ethics and standards. We see this in people’s actions and behavior on a daily basis. Not that we should be so judgmental on every issue and circumstance when we’re on the outside looking in, but in general morals and ethics have been thrown away in today’s

society.
I think that as Christians in today’s society, we should always be watchful as well as prayerful not to get relaxed with what the world looks at normal when it in fact, these norms go against the very word of God. We must reestablish moral norms, obligations, and values and be very cautious to live in them to the best of our ability. Those who do not necessarily confess Christ or his Kingdom are always closely watching those who do. It is our responsibility to walk worthy of that which God has called us to. In addition, we must be great examples of Christ to a dying generation who are clueless because of wrong examples that they have patterned themselves after.
The word of God will prevail in the morals and ethics of all things ultimately. Every person here on earth will stand in judgment before God for their lives in this world and will be judged according to our words and actions in this life. Christian ethics should be geared towards optimistic views of hope and faith in the face of the odds we encounter on a daily basis in our environment and surroundings. We cannot afford to buy into a worldly mindset. We must have an intense spiritual focus that ethics and morals of Christianity will be first in all that we try to accomplish.