N. T. Wright Quotes
The Whole Of The Sermon [Matt 5-7] Is Framed Within Jesus's Announcement That What His Fellow Jews Had Longed For Over Many Generations Was Now At Last Coming To Pass - But That New Kingdom Didn't Look Like They Had Thought It Would. Indeed, In Some Ways It Went In Exactly The Other Direction. No Violence, No Hatred Of Enemies, No Anxious Protection Of Land And Property Against The Pagan Hordes. In Short, No Frantic Intensification Of The Ancestral Codes Of Life. Rather, A Glad And Unworried Trust In The Creator God, Whose Kingdom Is Now At Last Starting To Arrive, Leading To A Glad And Generous Heart Toward Other People, Even Those Who Are Technically "enemies." Faith, Hope, And Love: Here They Are Again. They Are The Language Of Life, The Sign In The Present Of Green Shoots Growing Through The Concrete Of This Sad Old World, The Indication That The Creator God Is On The Move, And That Jesus's Hearers And Followers Can Be Part Of What He's Now Doing.
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