Salt, Light, and the Good Life: Blessings and the Sermon on the Mount

What is the good life to which Jesus calls us? Start with the Blessings from Jesus' preaching-where his disciples started their preparation for a life of service in the Spirit. The teachings of the Sermon are radical-they drive to the root-both in their simplicity and in the difficulty of living them. Yet this is the bedrock of what it means to live as a disciple of Jesus. This unit will use the instructions in the same way they were used by the early Christians-as catechism, teaching the e...