"I will show you my faith by what I do" - James
Based on Jesus instructions to be his witnesses beginning with where we are—see Acts 1:8; our "Jerusalem," as it were, is Los Angeles—we concentrate on LA but reach out to the rest of the world. This means that a major area of concern will overlap to a great extent, by coincidence or providence, the regions that concerned the revolutionary Che Guevara: he saw America as his purview, meaning South, Central, and North in that order of importance. Yet, few people know that he gained much of his revolutionary prowess in Africa, and would have taken his revolution there had he been successful.
"To die under the flag of Vietnam, of Venezuela, of Guatemala, of Laos, of Guinea, of Colombia, of Bolivia, of Brazil—to name only a few scenes of today's armed struggle—would be equally glorious and desirable for an American, an Asian, an African, even a European."
CHE: "The great lesson of the guerrillas' invincibility is taking hold among the masses of the dispossessed. The galvanization of the national spirit; the preparation for more difficult tasks, for resistance to more violent repression. Hate as a factor in the struggle, intransigent hatred for the enemy that takes one beyond the natural limitations of a human being and converts one into an effective, violent, selective, cold, killing machine. Our soldiers must be like that; a people without hate cannot triumph over a brutal enemy."
JESUS: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for them who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven...If you love those who love you, what reward will you get...? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. "
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"Such a people of love will express their love for one another, for the poor, the desperate, the needy, and the lost. They are willing to live for others, rather than for themselves, being prepared to ‘lay down their lives for their friends.’ There are many different ways of expressing this, but such love cannot be merely an emotion or series of good intentions; it is love expressed in positive action as we see in the New Testament."
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