André Trocmé challenges shallow notions of nonviolence and casual compassion.
POWER OF A DIFFERENT KIND. Listen to André Trocmé: “People tend to think
of nonviolence as a choice between using force and doing nothing. But for Jesus, the real choice takes place at
another level. Nonviolence is less a
matter of ‘not killing’ and more a matter of showing compassion, of saving and
redeeming, of being a healing community.”
HARM IN A LITTLE CHARITY. “One must choose between doing good to the
person placed in one’s path, or the evil which one might be doing by mere
abstention. For Jesus, there is no
no-man’s-land, enabling us to portion our attitudes, to do a little good to our
neighbor without taking the risk of becoming involved for his sake, or to do
him a little harm while still remaining charitable.”
INACTION NOT AN OPTION. “To do good is to save a person; not to do him
good is to kill him. To save someone is
to restore that person physically, socially, and spiritually. To neglect and postpone this restoration is
already to kill.”
FREE E-BOOK. This is from Jesus and the Nonviolent
Revolution by André Trocmé. Trocmé’s
hallmark book, first published in English in 1974, can be downloaded for free
in PDF e-book format from the folks at Plough Publishing. Access it at this link: http://www.plough.com/ebooks/nonviolentrevolution.html
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