Sermon on the Mount basis for Lenten series

“This class is about the moral teaching of Jesus,” said the Rev. Dana Horell as he opened the first session of a seven-week series to discuss the book, “The Moral Teachings of Jesus,” by Mary Foskett. The topic is based on the Sermon on the Mount.

“The Sermon on the Mount is only three chapters of the Gospel of Matthew, but it has been very resonant throughout history,” Horrell said that some of the most well-known religious and peace-minded scholars wrote about or were influenced by the sermon of Jesus, including Ghandi, Tolstoy and Martin Luther.

Horrell asked for examples of what being “Christ-like” means. The answers included loving, giving, forgiving and living rather than talking the commandments of God. When someone said this sounds like the definition of a loving person, Horrell agreed but added, “This is a description of ethics. Ethics includes everything we do.”

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