Thought for the Week: The discipleship deal

Christopher Stokes looks at discipleship and the Sermon on the Mount

by Christopher Stokes 5th February 2016

I am working my way through the Sermon on the Mount. Whenever I’ve thought about my relationship with Jesus in the past I’ve always turned to the Sermon on the Mount, regarding it as the best blueprint for living that I’ve ever encountered and deciding that I should try to follow its advice. But sooner or later I’ve given up, regretting that my established patterns of behaviour have proved too hard to break.