Stott: the Christian counterculture

Monday, July 27, 2015
    Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901
    Commemoration of John R. W. Stott, spiritual writer and teacher, 2011
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
    “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
    —Matthew 7:12-14 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The Sermon on the Mount is the most complete description anywhere in the New Testament of the Christian counterculture. Here is a Christian value system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, lifestyle and network of relationships—all of which are the total opposite of the non-Christian world. The Sermon presents life in the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the divine rule.
    ... John R. W. Stott (1921-2011), Sermon on the Mount [1978], InterVarsity Press, 2000, p. 6 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 7:12-14; 5:14,22,28,32,39-42; 6:19-20,24,33-34
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I long for Your rule to come. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
    search    script    mobile
sub    fb    twt    Jonah