HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY JUDGE OTHERS (4 OF 5)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 6:37-45
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How to Successfully Judge Others (4 of 5)
Series: The Upside Down Kingdom
Scott Maze
Luke 6:37-45
We continue our series entitled, The UpSide Down Kingdom and our journey through Luke's Gospel. This is the fourth message in a series of five on Jesus' most famous of sermons. I call it the UpSide Down Kingdom because the values that the world trashes, Jesus elevates while the values Jesus trashes, the world elevates.
1. Texas A and M and The Sermon on the Mount
For much of the past month, we've been examining Luke's version of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. For those of us religious insiders, these words are familiar and comfortable like our favorite pajamas. Yet for religious outsiders, Jesus' words are shocking and disturbing. Indeed as I recently discovered, Jesus' sermon is distressing to naïve ears.
A care in point comes from Virginia Stem Owens, an English professor at Texas A and M in the middle 1980s and follower of Christ. Owens assigned her freshman English class ''The Sermon on the Mount'' as a selection to read for class assignment. In her own words she describes her experience,
Most of the students at my university come from middle-class, conservative, Republican families. ...I expected them to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the reading and to express a modicum of piety in their written responses. After all, Texas has always been considered at least marginally part of the Bible Belt.
The first paper Owens picked up began, ''In my opinion religion is one big hoax.'' The next paper began, ''There is an old saying that 'you shouldn't believe everything you read' and it applies in this case.'' Owens continued reading paper after paper and received honest, candid windows in the minds of college freshman:
''The stuff the churches preach is extremely strict and allows for almost no fun without thinking it is a sin or not.''
''I did not like the essay 'Sermon the Mount.' It was hard to read and made me feel like I had to be p ...
Series: The Upside Down Kingdom
Scott Maze
Luke 6:37-45
We continue our series entitled, The UpSide Down Kingdom and our journey through Luke's Gospel. This is the fourth message in a series of five on Jesus' most famous of sermons. I call it the UpSide Down Kingdom because the values that the world trashes, Jesus elevates while the values Jesus trashes, the world elevates.
1. Texas A and M and The Sermon on the Mount
For much of the past month, we've been examining Luke's version of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. For those of us religious insiders, these words are familiar and comfortable like our favorite pajamas. Yet for religious outsiders, Jesus' words are shocking and disturbing. Indeed as I recently discovered, Jesus' sermon is distressing to naïve ears.
A care in point comes from Virginia Stem Owens, an English professor at Texas A and M in the middle 1980s and follower of Christ. Owens assigned her freshman English class ''The Sermon on the Mount'' as a selection to read for class assignment. In her own words she describes her experience,
Most of the students at my university come from middle-class, conservative, Republican families. ...I expected them to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the reading and to express a modicum of piety in their written responses. After all, Texas has always been considered at least marginally part of the Bible Belt.
The first paper Owens picked up began, ''In my opinion religion is one big hoax.'' The next paper began, ''There is an old saying that 'you shouldn't believe everything you read' and it applies in this case.'' Owens continued reading paper after paper and received honest, candid windows in the minds of college freshman:
''The stuff the churches preach is extremely strict and allows for almost no fun without thinking it is a sin or not.''
''I did not like the essay 'Sermon the Mount.' It was hard to read and made me feel like I had to be p ...
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