Our church, like many across the nation and world who use the Lectionary, preached on the Beatitudes this past Sunday. While this introduction to the Sermon on the Mount does convey a bizzaro world of blessings - poor, mourning, persecuted...blessed? - it is anything but funny. Yet, when I read Jesus' words in Matthew 5, I can't help but seeing this in my mind:
Beyond being hilarious, it is painfully true to how the Sermon on the Mount has been recieved by those who hear it - going blow-for-blow while Jesus praises meekness and bickering while Jesus lifts up the peacemakers. All the while, his voice is drowned out by the name-calling. Funny stuff, and accurate.
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