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.
