
7. Sermon on the Mount : Be perfect? Matthew 5:48-6:9, 16-18
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse
Isn't It a Comedy?
Stephanie: There's a number of little hints and moments in the gospels where jesus is kind of making fun of the pharisees, and its delighting the crowds. And i think it was held as that when people are delighted by it, it's also because they feel somehow they've been repressed by something, and now they're free from it. So like a comedian, we'll make well observe something about life that we all find repressive or annoying, and the fact that we get to laugh at it is a form of gospel. It's a form of freedom here. Ohelp were re goin to come to a close there, stephen has
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