“I have not come to bring peace, but a sword,” Jesus famously tells his apostles when he sends them out to preach, heal and cast out demons (Matthew 10:34)—startling them with these words, perhaps, as much as he startles us. There’s a sense in which the Good News will not be easy to hear; it will be subversive, disruptive, divisive. The post Now comes the hard part appeared first on Anglican Journal.