The violent streak in Christianity?

Strengthened by Grace Yes, there is a mean, violent streak in the true Christian life! But violence against whom, or what? Not other people!

• It’s a violence against all the impulses in us that would be violent to other people.
• It’s a violence against all the impulses in our own selves that would make peace with our own sin and settle in with a peacetime mentality.
• It’s a violence against all lust in ourselves and all enslaving desires.