Episode 37: Piety, public and private

What kinds of things do Christians do that people might consider “religious”? Pray, go to church, read the Bible? Yes, all these, and more. But in the first part of Matthew 6, Jesus will teach that it’s possible to do good things for the wrong reasons. It’s one thing to engage in religious practices because we want others to think of us as pious people; but it’s another to do them in a way that only God sees.

What is Chunks: The Sermon on the Mount?

The "Sermon on the Mount," found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, contains some of the best-known teaching of Jesus, including the Lord's Prayer. It also includes some of the most ethically challenging words in all of the New Testament. This show will explore the sermon bit by bit, as Jesus calls believers to a kind of righteousness that is lived out in the everyday challenges of relationships.