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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?”
25,621 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
Philippians 2: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Acts 10: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Isaiah 55:1-9 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 66:1-12 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 1:4-10 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Isaiah 49:1-7 17:11-19 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Psalm 118:14-29 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
If Jeremiah 18:1-11 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.
Psalm 19 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Psalm 121 3:1-11 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Psalm 98 29:1, 4-7 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
Colossians 1:1-14 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Luke 15: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
John 10: In the way of Jesus, it calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Haggai 1:15b-2:9 18:1-11 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Proverbs 1: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Matthew 5:21-37 Psalm 119:97-104, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.
Psalm 119:137-144 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired.
Psalm 148 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Psalm 90: In the way of Jesus, it calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Luke 13:10-17 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.