Trigger warning: This is a follow-up to the previous “Presence Without Performance” series and deals with one specific problem from that series that has a much deeper impact on society than most people realize. This is part seven of seven.
Psalm 34:14
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.(ESV)
The enemy doesn’t need to destroy you. He just needs you to be quiet. He just needs you to confuse peace with passivity—unity with surrender—truth with tone. He doesn’t steal your sword. He convinces you to lay it down in the name of getting along.
And while you’re “keeping the peace,” hell is building a fortress in your silence.
Stop Worshiping Peace. Start Pursuing Christ.
Peace is not the goal. Christ is. Peace is the fruit—not the root. The real thing only grows from truth, repentance, and holy fire.
James 3:18
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.(ESV)
But fake peace? It looks safe. It feels holy. And it chains your hands behind your back while wolves devour the flock.
Rip Down the Whitewashed Walls
Tear them down. The false smiles. The polite lies. The whispered dismissals. The “we don’t talk about that here.”
Tear it all down.
You are not called to play nice with evil. You are not called to protect dysfunction. You are not called to preserve appearances while rot spreads through the foundation.
You are called to truth. To courage. To war—in the Spirit—for the sake of the people around you.
Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.(ESV)
This Is Your Line in the Sand
If you’ve seen yourself in this series—if you’ve traded truth for comfort, silence for image, or unity for obedience—then this is your altar call and your war cry.
Enough.
Enough with false peace.
Enough with empty unity.
Enough with Sunday smiles hiding weekday wounds.
Enough with pretending Christ called you to be a doormat instead of a disciple.
Peace isn’t the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of Christ in the middle of the fight.
This Is the Marching Order
Ephesians 6:15
and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.(ESV)
The gospel of peace is your combat boot. It’s not slippers for the sanctuary—it’s traction for the trenches. It’s grip for uneven ground when the world starts shaking. It’s readiness—not retreat.
So stomp the ground. Let the lies scatter. Let the walls fall. Let hell remember your name—not because you were loud, but because you refused to stay quiet.
Final Charge
Don’t just keep the peace. Make it. And if you must break things to get there—Then let the breaking be holy. Let it be bold. Let it be done in love.
And let it leave no room for the counterfeit to grow back. Because peace without truth is a lie. And the Church has no time left for lies.
Walking With Christ 
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