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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
24,413 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
In Luke 12:13-21, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Timothy 3:14-4:5 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 8:18-9:1 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
In Luke 16:19-31, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Acts 10: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Ephesians 2: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Luke 21:5-19 1:2-10 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.
Isaiah 6: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
1 Corinthians 15: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Luke 21:5-19 1 Timothy 6:6-19, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Luke 22:14-23:56 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Luke 12:32-40 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.
2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Luke 12:49-56 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.
Isaiah 63:7-9 Luke 19:1-10, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
1 Timothy 1:12-17 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Isaiah 6:1-8 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 1:3-9 14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
In Luke 13:31-35, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Luke 19:1-10 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Psalm 14 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Acts 9:36-43 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.