## Detour: a deviation from a direct course or the
procedure.
Through the Beatitudes, Jesus radically
You are the
For Jesus…
1. The Bible is a story that reaches its climax in
2. The Bible is
3. The Bible is in constant need of debate, dialogue, rethinking, re-reading, etc. in order to get back to the
4. The Bible wasn’t just meant merely to be read and believed, but also to be
“Do Not Be Like Them”
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” —Jesus, Matthew 6.25-34
Worry: be anxious, fear or the future or the unknown.
What we are anxious about becomes to the object of our
and our .
Uncertainty provides an
for believers to shine.
“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” —Jesus, Matthew 6.27