“The future of God challenges and transforms the present of those who hear” - Larry Bouchard (Feasting on the Word: The Gospel of Matthew)
The Beatitudes speak to us about the present and the future. About a time that is coming when all other standards apart from God's will fade away, and a time now when we get to choose to see God's ways and ideals as a blessing. But sometimes that choice is hard. Sometimes it seems easier to fit in with everyone else or to live into our own ideas of blessings instead of God's. That's what made the Beatitudes so radical to the hearers in Jesus's time, and what makes them just as risky for us today. But the beatitudes can transform us - as individuals and as a church - if we let them. What in the Beatitudes challenges you the most?
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