Becoming more like Jesus while learning to live under his direction

Becoming more like Jesus while learning to live under his direction.

Will You Follow?

March 26, 2023 Elaine Poproski Download: Audio

Sermon Notes:

The first minute or so of the sermon wasn’t captured on the recording. The sermon begins by introducing and reading Matthew 7:13 – 14.

Scripture: Matthew 7:13 – 29

“Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Read more…

The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 – 7 is possibly the most famous of all Jesus’ teaching in the New Testament. Over the centuries it has most often been read as an idealized and impossible ethic required of Jesus’ followers. But what if, as theologian Stanley Hauerwas suggests, the sermon is instead meant to be read as a “constitution of a people?”* How does that affect what we do with the words? How does it affect our life together as the Community of Christ?

*Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Matthew. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2006), 61.

Sermon Notes:

Scripture: Matthew 7:13 – 29

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