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- Title: At What Elevation Is Jesus' Sermon on the Mount?(Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 280 KB
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Jesus' Sermon on the Mount has always held great fascination for me, and it continues to fascinate me, as it has countless Christians and non-Christians down through the ages. Much of what 1 have to say here will not be new, but 1 do want to share some of my own insights into this great piece of religious discourse, hoping that they will be both helpful and timely in a day when teachings embodied in this Sermon greatly need to be heard. Our world today has trouble enough, and the Christian church is also in crisis. The daily newspapers and news on the television remind us without letup how impure the world and the church have become. What then should we do? Pray? Of course, but we need to do more than pray. Christians in other times like out own have returned to examine the foundations of our faith to see what they can teach us, and I can think of no more foundational teaching in Christianity than Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Matthew features it prominently at the beginning of his Gospel, where it appears to be nothing less than a "new covenant" presented to the nascent church.