Podcast: "The Way" through The Sacred Gap (Part 7), Ep. 27

The Point of Healing (Mercy and the Recovery of Human Destiny)

The more we understand Jesus' invitation for the Kingdom life, the more compelling it is. Listen in as Tyler and Aric continue to explore Jesus' compelling vision for Kingdom life through his opening words of his Sermon on the Mount. As we discussed in our previous series, he offers a promise of healing and transformation that frees us from our shadow stories into lives lived more and more fully in the true story and the Kingdom realities that you are loved, you belong, you are chosen, and you have nothing to prove. The difference between those two realities is what we have called The Sacred Gap and once that gap becomes clear, so does an obvious question: "How do I get through that gap?" Well, it turns out there is an answer. The early Kingdom communities of Jesus' apprentices, not coincidentally, referred to themselves as practitioners of "The Way." What "Way" is that? It is "The Way" that Jesus himself taught in the greatest and most compelling sermon ever given.

In this podcast, we pick up where we left off last time as we follow Jesus into what is now a decidedly outward expression of what, to this point, has been a very internal journey. Yes, the healing Jesus has for us is for us, but it is not only for us. Jesus' breathtaking vision for what he calls the Kingdom is a vision that takes us all the way back to the very beginning and invites us to reexamine our assumptions about what that Kingdom is. It is no accident that here, right in the middle of these "Blessed are" statements is the word mercy. Listen in as Tyler and Aric discuss the significance of mercy as the central ethic of the Kingdom and how it points us to a recovery of our human destiny.

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