KingsGate Community Church
Your Best Life Now?
– with Andrew Ollerton
KingsGate Community Church is a UK-based multi-cultural, inter-generational church with campuses in Peterborough, Cambridge, Leicester and Online, and a mission to see lives transformed from our neighbourhoods to the nations by the power of God's love.
Your Best Life Now?
– with Andrew Ollerton
salt of the earth – love your enemies – you win some you lose some – if the right eye sins, gouge it out - judge not lest you be judged - bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - go the extra mile – children should be seen not heard – turn the other cheek – plank in the eye
WHAT IS THE BEST OR BLESSED LIFE? HOW CAN WE LIVE IT TODAY?
“I did not like this teaching. It made me feel like I had to be perfect and no one is.”
“This teaching is absurd. To look at a woman in that way is adultery? To be angry is murder? Those are the most extreme, stupid, unhuman statements I have ever heard!”
1 – SETTING THE SCENE: God’s pattern for life
Matthew 4:17 NIVUK
Matthew 5:1-2 NIVUK
Matthew 6:8 NIVUK
LIVING DISTINCTIVELY – LIVING SECURELY – LIVING WISELY
Matthew 5:1 NIVUK
2 – THE BEATITUDES: Living the Jesus way
Before DO, we must BE different
Beatitude = divine favour
Matthew 5:3-10 NIVUK
HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE GOD - Matthew 5:3-6
Matthew 5:3 NIVUK
Matthew 5:4-5 NIVUK
“To be meek is to have a true view of ourselves.”
Martin Lloyd-Jones – Welsh minister and doctor
Matthew 5:6 NIVUK
Matthew 5:6 NIVUK
DEVOTE YOURSELF TO SERVING OTHERS - Matthew 5:7-10
“Bob seems to have it all… few would prefer Mary’s life to his. Yet if you had to bet on it you should bet that Mary is happier than Bob”
Jonathan Haidt - The Happiness Hypothesis
Matthew 5:7, 9 ESV
“…mercy is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
Matthew 5:9 NIVUK
Matthew 5:10 NIVUK
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King – Christian minister and activist
