Blessed are the Cheesemakers...

One of my favourite classics is Monty Python's - Life of Brian. This film is pure brilliance! I actually find it hard to listen to the Beatitudes read without transporting myself back to the Sermon on the Mount re-enactment...

Life of Brian

Im in the middle of reading an EPIC book... Its called Resident Aliens...* its not a Sci-Fi but a cosmically mind blowing provocative Christian assesment of culture and ministry...

Anyways here is a quote from the book...

Here [in the sermon on the Mount] is an invitation to a way that strikes hard against what the world already knows, what the world defines as good behavior, what makes sense to everybody. The Sermon, by its announcement and its demands, makes necessary the formation of a colony, not because disciples are those who have a ned to be different, but because the Sermon, if believed and lived, makes us different, shows us the world to be alien, and odd place where what makes sense to everybody else is revealed to be opposed to what God is doing among us. jesus was not crucified for saying or doing what made sense to everyone. People are crucified for following a way that runs counter to the prevailing direction of the culture…



* Please note as much as I bagged amazon.com... in previous posts... its still good for book reviews!