Podcast: "The Way" through The Sacred Gap (Part 9), Ep. 29

Where It All Leads: The Kingdom and Our Calling (Seeing the Face of God)

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." — Matthew 5:8

In this episode, we explore the culmination of Jesus' vision for healing and the Kingdom—what it means to be pure in heart and how it leads us to truly see God. The Beatitudes are not just a list of virtues; they form a progressive journey of inner healing, restored relationships, and manifested love in action.

At this moment in the Beatitudes, Jesus is pulling back the curtain, revealing the climax of his vision—our destiny to a restored partnership with him in this dream. In a word: calling. Too often, calling is misunderstood as something reserved for a select few, typically in vocational ministry. But Jesus' invitation is for everyone. Calling is not about profession—it’s about partnership with God in the work of renewal, right where we are.

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.

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