REVOLUTIONARY : Jesus teaches his disciples about growing surpassing righteousness
What was it the produced shalom-bringing righteousness in the original followers of Jesus? Using the Sermon on the Mount as a guide, we will explore the process of the development of righteousness that incarnates Jesus in disciples past and present.
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.