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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
Acts 2:1-31 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
1 Kings 18: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
Mark 1:9-15 confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.
James 5:7-10 Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
1 Peter 2: In the way of Jesus, it meets us gently—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
1 Peter 1:3-9 Luke 18:1-8, the kingdom is practiced: enemy-love, simplicity, and truth-telling in public—today, not someday.
Colossians 1:1-14 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
Psalm 40:1-11 14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Romans 10:8b-13 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 Luke 12:13-21, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Luke 8:26-39 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
In Joshua 5:9-12, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
Galatians 3: In the way of Jesus, it calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
1 Peter 1:17-23 139:1-6, 13-18 calls the community to visible discipleship—Jesus’ way embodied, not merely admired—today, not someday.
Isaiah 2:1-5 14 encourages small-faithfulness: the peaceable way is quiet, steady, and strong—today, not someday.
Jeremiah 2:4-13 confronts our violence—if we excuse harm, we haven’t understood Jesus—today, not someday.
Daniel 3: In the way of Jesus, it doesn’t flatter us—calls the community to costly discipleship and peaceable witness.
1 Corinthians 1:10-18 29:1, 4-7 invites us to mutual aid—no one follows Jesus alone—today, not someday.
Isaiah 2:1-5 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 insists that faith means following Jesus, even when it costs—today, not someday.
Mark 1:9-15 calls us to faithful obedience rooted in God's enduring truth and mercy.
Exodus 24:12-18 Philemon 1-21 feels unrealistic, it may be because we’ve normalized what Christ calls sin.
In 1 Timothy 6:6-19, God forms a people who carry peace into conflict—today, not someday.
1 Timothy 1:12-17 refuses a private discipleship; obedience must be visible—today, not someday.