"O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. O that today you would hearken to His voice!" Psalm 95:5-7
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. O that today you would hearken to His voice!" Psalm 95:5-7
I am feeling led to the Sermon on the Mount to study, meditate, memorize, pray and live the words. Inspired by Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship and how he dealt with a society gone mad, I am now moving on to Stott’s Christian Counter-culture.
“The followers of Jesus are to be different. Different from both the nominal church and the secular world, different from both the religious and the irreligious. The Sermon on the Mount is the Christian value system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, lifestyle and relationships.
This is the call of Jesus, to “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.” Repent means the complete change of mind and the Sermon describes what human life and human community look like when they come under the gracious rule of God.
This ought to occupy my mind and heart for several generations. How else to face the despair of a crazily spinning world? With the hope of a new kingdom. Quite done with the old.
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