Sunday, September 11, 2016

Mount and Plain

Sunday, September 18:  We begin our new series focusing on the Beatitudes!

╬ “Mount and Plain” In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus ascends the mountain to deliver his most profound teaching about blessing.  In the Gospel According to Luke, he leads his followers out on a wide, level plain.  The differences in the Gospel accounts have a lot to say about the Gospel writers and intended audiences, about the context and situations in which the teachings are recounted.  But the truth of the message – the core of Jesus’ teaching – comes through with paradigm-shattering clarity.  He’s teaching us how to live God’s way in a world that struggles with the will and ways of God.  We begin with the contexts and uniqueness of “the sermon on the mount” and the “sermon on the plain” … the Beatitudes.