Different
John Stott on Jesus’ teaching on the mount —
"The followers of Jesus are to be different,
different from both the nominal church and the secular world,
different from both the religious and the 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, lifestyle and network of relationships — all of which are totally at variance with those in 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."
