“The sermon, therefore, is not a list of requirements, but rather a description of the life of a people gathered by and around Jesus. [The] Church, then, forms the context for the ethic of Jesus.” — Stanley Hauerwas

Jesus says that the wise person not only listens to his words [in ‘The Sermon’], but obeys them. When they do, their ‘house’ is built on the rock and survives the storm.

Jesus warns that there are prophets who may say all the right things and even perform mighty works, but their lives do not produce fruit. That is, they do not do the will of God.

Jesus specifically addresses two kinds of paths. One that leads to life — The other, destruction. Jesus himself is the gate that leads to life — But how do we enter it?

What does this Greater Righteousness in the Golden Rule look like? And is there a way that we could ‘do unto others what we would want done to us’ that doesn’t exalt Christ?

For many of us, the reason we judge others harshly and wrongly is because we really don’t understand the graciousness and generosity of God the Father. 

Does Jesus forbid us from discerning right from wrong, good from bad, etc.? Dive in with us as we explore Matthew 7:1-6.

Christ wants his disciples to know what anxiety is, what can cause it, and how focusing on God’s Kingdom and righteousness can help us overcome it!

If the Kingdom vision that Jesus tells us of doesn’t reshape our approach to possessions, then we are not living out the Kingdom vision.