{"id":3462,"date":"2008-04-14T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/04\/preparing-for-pentecost-16.html"},"modified":"2008-04-14T00:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T00:10:56","slug":"preparing-for-pentecost-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/04\/preparing-for-pentecost-16.html","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Pentecost 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Jesus Creed of loving God and loving others expresses the heart of Jesus&#8217; ethic and God&#8217;s design for Eikons, then the Sermon on the Mount somehow expresses what loving God and loving others is all about. This is why the 4th part of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F40-Days-Living-Jesus-Creed%2Fdp%2F1557255776%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1201660962%26sr%3D1-22&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">40 Days Living the Jesus Creed<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em> is called &#8220;The Jesus Creed becomes the Sermon on the Mount.&#8221;<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nFor me, this isn&#8217;t cute; I spent a month sitting on my back porch last summer pondering and praying over the Sermon on the Mount to discern how it shapes our understanding of the Jesus Creed.<br \/>\nAnd in our series now we are suggesting that the Sermon on the Mount is what a Pentecostal community is designed to look like. 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