Peaceless: Finding Peace in a Peaceless World | Part 1 | What is Peace? | Chris Voigt

What Is Peace?
Peaceless: Finding Peace in a Peaceless World
June 5, 2022

We all want it, but you can’t just order it from Amazon or pick it up at the store on your way home from work. In fact, you can’t buy it, but it can be stolen; you can’t borrow it, but you can make it! Once you’ve got it, keeping it can be a challenge. Do you know what it is?

Close your eyes for just a minute. What images come to mind when you hear these phrases?

“Peace and quiet.”  
“Peace of mind.”
“Give peace a chance.”
“Peace out!”

What everyone wants but all struggle to find is real, lasting peace.

Wikipedia defines peace as, “A concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups.”

I guess that’s a good enough place to start; of course, we all want our lives to be free of conflict, hostility, violence and filled with friendship and harmony. But is that really all there is to peace? Is peace just learning how to get along and play nicely with one another? Or is there something more, something deeper we need to understand about peace? Where does peace come from? How can we get it? And once we have it, how can we keep it?

Join us as we begin a four-week series called Peaceless: Finding Peace in a Peaceless World. We live in a culture that is driven by fear and anxiety. We’re bombarded daily by headlines that inform and overwhelm us with the latest crisis and constant chaos. With so much that seems out of control, is peace even a possibility in our world?

The good news is that real peace is available. Join us as we discover where to find it together.