The Christian Counter-Culture
For the past couple weeks I have been preparing a series in the Sermon on the Mount. I am finding John Stott to be very helpful in my preparation. Here is Stott’s explanation of the SOTM’s purpose: ”The followers of Jesus are to be different–different from both the nominal church and the secular world, different from both the religious and irreligious. The Sermon on the Mount is the most complete delineation anywhere in the New Testament of the Christian counter-culture. Here is a Christian value-system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, life-style and network of relationships–all of which are totally at variance with those of the non-Christian world. And this Christian counter-culture is the life of the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the divine rule.” –John Stott
