Peace should be a high priority for all believers. We should do all we can to ensure that the church is a harmonious and pleasant place to worship. Each Christian should be peaceable. But what does it mean to be peaceable?
Wilhelmus à Brakel, in his Reformed classic The Christian’s Reasonable Service, offers this definition of peaceableness:
Peaceableness is a believer’s quiet and contented disposition of soul, inclining him toward, and causing him to strive for, the maintaining of a relationship with his neighbor characterized by sweet unity—doing so in the way of truth and godliness. (4:91)