Wouldn’t you just love to be able to sit at Jesus feet and learn directly from him?
After hundreds of years of silence, Jesus arrives on the scene… fulfilling the Old Testament promises, embodying the righteous life God calls for, challenging religious half-heartedness, and teaching about what life in His Kingdom is really all about.
And what was it that the Son of God, Israel’s true King, came to teach?
This year, at Women to Women, we will be studying Jesus’ words as he spoke to his disciples in Matthew 5-7. The “Sermon on the Mount” can seem so familiar that we think we know what it says, but it also so deeply challenging we try to forget what it demands.
Perhaps it would be good to come at it afresh, remembering that it begins with “Blessed are the Pure in Heart” and ends with “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock”. We need to come humbly to the Word and seek to listen well to the one who has authority to speak in to our lives. We have much to learn about what it means to belong to Christ and how we might live as citizens of the King.
Why not read through (or watch) Matthew chapters 5-7 before coming along on Wednesday? And let’s pray that we will see more of who Jesus is and what it means to follow him as we come again to listen to his teaching.
Women to Women starts on Wednesday at 7 for 7:30pm… If you can come earlier, we’d love you to join us for a meal at 6:30pm… just email Sue to let her know you’ll be there.
