Luke 6:17-26
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The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.
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In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.
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How many of us conceive of blessing is predicated on an ancient prejudice. That we are good and deserving and others aren’t.
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In the blessings and woes, Jesus challenges us to see things in a different way: to write a different ending to the story.
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In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.