You Have Heard it Said (Matthew 5:21-37)

Our society is governed by rules. We have rules for driving our cars, rules for running meetings, rules for how we build buildings, rules for how we raise and educate our children. sometimes we feel hemmed in by rules, but usually we accept them as essential to being able to live together in our communities and country. We accept them because they help us to know how to act. 

There are times when we keep rules just because they are there, without ever trying to understand the underlying reason for the rule or law. Jesus spoke about this type of rule keeping as he introduced the new kingdom, the kingdom of God, in the Sermon on the Mount. Over and over he says "you have heard it said", or you have been told, that one of God's laws can be fulfilled in a particular way, "but I say" here's what it really means.

Jesus points us in a new direction in our understanding of God's laws.

Join us Sunday morning as we look at how God's law points us toward relationship with God and with our neighbours.