A Narrow Path (S15 Episode21)

This Sunday we come to the finale of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Jesus concludes his sermon with a series of potent images. Gates, roads, trees, fruit, fire, foundations, rocks, sand. The challenge for us is that imagery is rarely neutral. And with these images, I have a hunch more than a few of us are carrying some baggage.

So, I want to start by exploring how subtitles in the Bible (put there by translators and publishers) often serve to skew messages in the Bible and how the interpretive key to this last passage is easy to find. Then, I want to introduce you to something called the Silver Rule. I think it may help some of us get our heads around what Jesus is asking of us here.

I am excited for this Sunday. We have been in the Sermon on the Mount since September, so in wrapping things up, I hope the closure we find truly leaves us with a deeper desire to find and follow the good and flourishing life Jesus is calling us to live.