Episode 47: Your will be done

Often, we speak of “God’s will” as something we seek when we have an important decision to make; we want to know what the “right” decision is, the one that God wants us to make. But this is far too narrow a way of thinking of God’s will, and that’s not what we’re praying in the Lord’s Prayer. The question is, “What does God want from his people?” And Jesus has already taught much of this in the earlier part of the sermon. Can we pray that we would be obedient to his teaching?

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.