Counterintuitive Conversations – February 13, 2022

Scripture: Luke 6: 17-26

The Sermon on the Plain–blessings and woes. The narrative takes us to one of Jesus’ most well-known sermons — a litany of “blessed are they…” This litany would have resonated with his congregation on that mountaintop. It contained the laundry-list of the hardships they were enduring. But Jesus is pointing out the blessedness even in the midst of that context and instead of treating them as the powerless downtrodden, he calls them blessed. Indeed, following Jesus’ path can increase the struggles, but also the blessing