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BIBLE READING Matthew Chapters 5-7
TEACHING POINT Jesus explains what life in the new Kingdom is like.
LEADER'S PREPARATION The Sermon on the Mount is a very well known part of the Bible and rightly so, because it provides some very important teaching. To attempt to study it all in one session seems like trying to climb Everest in that short time between afternoon tea and dinner time. It would be absolutely impossible; there are entire sets of studies just on these chapters. If it would help your group to slow down and take in more of the Sermon then feel free to do so. Our aim in this study is to pick out some of the big themes to show how the Sermon on the Mount fits into Matthew as a whole. We will concentrate on 5:1-20 and 7:13-29.
INTRODUCING THE KINGDOM
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