The Gateway Church

Like everything else in Jesus' life, the resurrection is an all or nothing choice: Those who believed were transformed; infused with hope and courage, they went out to change the world.Those who did not believe found ways to ignore strong evidence.

Of all the statements of Jesus from the cross, his cry in Matthew 27 is easily the most disturbing, the most perplexing, and the most confusing. But in these final breaths of Jesus we see the true nature of his suffering, the purpose of his suffering and the outcome of his suffering.

Of all the statements of Jesus from the cross, his cry in Matthew 27 is easily the most disturbing, the most perplexing, and the most confusing. But in these final breaths of Jesus we see the true nature of his suffering, the purpose of his suffering and the outcome of his suffering.

A king who comes to deal out life, not death. Who gives bread, but not just bread to eat. Jesus is ultimately our bread. Bread is a symbol for life. And JESUS is the BREAD of LIFE. Jesus always puts his rights and needs behind his compassion for us. He gave up his throne for a stable. He gave us up Heaven to traveling around and having no place to lay his head. He gave up honor for an old rugged cross. THIS is the unexpected revolution.

A king who comes to deal out life, not death. Who gives bread, but not just bread to eat. Jesus is ultimately our bread. Bread is a symbol for life. And JESUS is the BREAD of LIFE. Jesus always puts his rights and needs behind his compassion for us. He gave up his throne for a stable. He gave us up Heaven to traveling around and having no place to lay his head. He gave up honor for an old rugged cross. THIS is the unexpected revolution.

There is a striking pattern throughout all four gospel accounts of Jesus life: the more unsavory the characters, the more at ease they seemed to feel around Jesus. Meanwhile the more respectable types found him shocking, even revolting. So the question immediately arrises, what has happened to reverse the pattern of Jesus' day? Why don't sinners like being around the Church?

Nowhere does Jesus talk more clearly about what it looks like to follow him than in the Sermon on the Mount. It's a provocative and counter-intuitive announcement about what happens when God shows up: The poor, the meek, and those who mourn are called blessed. Enemies are loved, the poor are cared for God's will is done on earth.

There is a striking pattern throughout all four gospel accounts of Jesus life: the more unsavory the characters, the more at ease they seemed to feel around Jesus. Meanwhile the more respectable types found him shocking, even revolting. So the question immediately arrises, what has happened to reverse the pattern of Jesus' day? Why don't sinners like being around the Church?

Nowhere does Jesus talk more clearly about what it looks like to follow him than in the Sermon on the Mount. It's a provocative and counter-intuitive announcement about what happens when God shows up: The poor, the meek, and those who mourn are called blessed. Enemies are loved, the poor are cared for God's will is done on earth.

the Sermon on the Mount is a concise statement of Jesus’ teachings on how to actually live in the reality of God’s present kingdom.