Wednesday, January 02, 2008
resolutions
My New Year's resolutions last year were rather vague, perhaps intentionally so. Although I've not made any new ones for this year, I have thought about them. The following, by Glen H. Stassen, Living the Sermon on the Mount, was helpful for me in regaining what I believe to be a proper perspective, i.e, what does Jesus teach?
Jesus' climax at the end of the Beatitudes says exactly this: Stand faithful and do not get blown about by the ideologies of the world. . . . If we lose our distinction from the world's greed, uncaring, self-centeredness, exclusionism, unfaithfulness, and violence, then we have no purpose.
Jesus' climax at the end of the Beatitudes says exactly this: Stand faithful and do not get blown about by the ideologies of the world. . . . If we lose our distinction from the world's greed, uncaring, self-centeredness, exclusionism, unfaithfulness, and violence, then we have no purpose.
