New Testament Tales - Jesus' Teaching
Jesus’ Teaching 1. What are the beatitudes? 2. How did Jesus make the law even stricter? 3. How did Jesus make the law gentler? 4. When did Jesus disagree with the customary law? 5. What methods of teaching did Jesus use? 6. How did Jesus include women in his teaching? 7. How did Jesus include foreigners in his teaching? 8. How did Jesus include helpers in his ministry? 9. How did Jesus make it clear he wasn’t just a good man? 10. How often did Jesus prophesy his death? The Beatitudes are often viewed as Jesus’ ministry manifesto. The rules of his culture demanded that one could only be “right” with God if one obeyed all the laws; obedience to law was ensured by couching each rule in others that protected people from accidental disobedience. Jesus, by contrast, suggested we can tell we’re right with God by what we are (by our attitudes), rather than what we do. Of course, that makes it harder to judge whether our neighbor is right with God, but as Jesus says, “Judge not.” One problem w...