The Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5-7

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Sermon, "The Sermon on the Mount"

Sermon, 9/23/2018

My translation — Sermon on the Mount (PDF)

Eberhard Arnold, Salt and Light, p. 2

Salt and Light

These highlights of the Sermon on the mount make it very clear that it is not a new law … instead, it is the revelation of God’s real power in human life.

Stanley Hauerwas, “Living the Proclaimed Reign of God,” Interpretation (April 1993), p. 152-158
Stanley Hauerwas, “Repentance: A Lenten Meditation,” Minding the Web, p. 212

"Repentance: A Lenten Meditation"

… because we cannot imagine living the type of lives the Sermon seems to envisage, we cannot help but fear that we are only playing at being Christian.

Stanley Hauerwas, “Living the Proclaimed Reign of God,” Interpretation (April 1993), p. 152-158
Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, Resident Aliens, p. 69-89
Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home, p. 226

Leaving Home

As the Lord would have said in the Sermon on the Mount if he had had time, “Blessed are those who arrive early wait to be seated and sit where they are told.” The ushers at that service would have been called Mounties, and they’d have passed out bulletins, (“Peter and Andrew went fishing last week and caught so many that their nets almost broke—way to go guys!”) in addition to loaf and fish distribution.

Kathleen Norris, “Mysteries of the Incarnation: II. Imperatives,” Little Girls in Church, p. 62

“Mysteries of the Incarnation: II. Imperatives”

Look at the birds
Consider the lilies
Drink ye all of it
Ask
Seek
Knock
Enter by the narrow gate

Do not be anxious
Judge not; do not give dogs what is holy
Go: be it done for you
Do not be afraid
Maiden, arise
Young man, I say, arise

Stretch out your hand
Stand up, be still
Rise, let us be going …

Love
Forgive
Remember me

John Howard Yoder, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, p. 140

The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited

… the ethic of truth-telling which needs no oath, or enemy love which needs no sword, of jubilee sharing which needs no treasures, is a Jewish ethic. There is nothing platonic, nothing gnostic, nothing Persian about it. The ethic of the Sermon on the Mount is nothing but Jewish.