BibleProject Annual 2024 - Flipbook - Page 24
Sketches from Sermon on the Mount character design
But why did we choose to put so
This collection of Jesus’ most basic
much effort into this series? Why
teachings has been masterfully
spend the whole year on just three
shaped with riddles, puzzles, and
chapters of the Bible?
parables that invite the reader to a
Matthew organizes the sermon in
a three-part structure that poses
some critical questions for Jesus
followers of any age. What does it
look like for a group of people to
live out the message of Jesus?
What does Jesus want his followers
to value most in life? How should a
disciple of Jesus think about money,
sex, conflict resolution, and anxiety?
The sermon addresses all these
questions, inviting us to ponder
what it means to be human and
follow Jesus.
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lifetime of rereading and meditation.
From the nine poetic “good life”
sayings in the introduction to the
three parables in the conclusion,
Jesus crafts his words with creative
hyperlinks to the Hebrew Scriptures.
Studying Jesus’ words in Matthew
5-7 is a crash course on what the
entire Bible is all about.
