Becoming more like Jesus while learning to live under his direction

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

Know Yourself

March 19, 2023 Elaine Poproski Download: Audio

Scripture: Matthew 7:1-12

‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way as you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 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.

Scripture: Matthew 7:1-12

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