Well let’s be honest–it’s people violence. The news is inundated with people exhibiting hatred toward one another. Parents kill babies. Adults abuse children. People bully, shoot, stab, ignore, shout at, dismiss, and fail other people. We’re so quick to recognize the ills of another yet do we really understand the disease within ourselves?

See, it’s not about more bureaucracy. Adjustments to the legal codes. Rallying for freedoms or invasions of privacy. No, it’s about something much, much deeper.

Reconciliation. There is a ministry and a message of reconciliation–with which God’s people have been entrusted. It is this reconciliation, available only in and through the Way, the Truth, and the Life that God is and brings, which can bring healing to a hurting world. To a hurting people. To a hurting you and me.

Our battle is not against flesh and blood. We’re not out to kill zombies. The zombies are us, and the reconciliation that God has initiated is the only element which can turn a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. The real zombie battle is a battle for the hearts of men and women across this land. Engage!

¹⁶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

–II Cor. 5:16-21