Humility Ain't Easy (Matthew 23:1-12)

Even so, this is difficult to listen to if what you think Jesus came to do was to inflict niceness on an otherwise testy Near East. Jesus just sounds so … cranky.

Couldn’t we get the nice Jesus—the one who loves children and little old ladies? This whole fire-breathing itinerant prophet thing is tough to watch. I mean, this is going to be a difficult story to teach in Vacation Bible School.

But why?

I think it’s because that kind of honesty makes people uncomfortable, and our culture tells us that our responsibilities lie in lubricating the social gears rather than throwing sand in them. But sand is sometimes exactly what’s needed to get the machinery of the status quo to stop and look at the damage it’s producing.

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Sermon text: [ web][1] | [ doc][2]

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