The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
"The
followers of Jesus are to different," writes John Stott, "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 most
complete delineation anywhere in the New Testament of the Christian
counter-culture. Here is a Christian value-system, ethical standard,
religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, lifestyle, and network
of relationships--all of which are totally at variance with those in the
non-Christian world. And this Christian counter-culture is the life of
the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the
divine rule."
