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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
1 Corinthians 1:10-18 29:1, 4-7 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Amos 7:7-17 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Acts 2:1-31 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Psalm 1 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
John 1: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Luke 14:25-33 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.
Mark 1:9-15 confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.
1 Peter 2: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Genesis 12:1-4a Timothy 1:1-14 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Psalm 40:1-11 14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
In Psalm 99, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.
Galatians 3: In the way of Jesus, it calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Romans 13:11-14 14:25-33 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Luke 8:26-39 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Philippians 2:5-11 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
In 1 Timothy 6:6-19, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Ephesians 3:1-12 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
Luke 2:15-21 5:1-7 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 2:4-13 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
2 Timothy 1:1-14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Psalm 146:5-10 79:1-9 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.
Mark 16:1-8 reminds weary hearts that God is near and grace meets us here.
Romans 15:4-13 Luke 16:1-13, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.