Euangelion
Here is a cool intro the Story of God Bible Commentary Series:
Scot McKnight’s commentary on the Sermon on the Mount includes this fine statement:
The Sermon presents Jesus’ moral vision and summons us to follow him, and the Sermons is designed to prompt one to make a decision about Jesus. Thus, we are led to think immediately of an “Ethic from Above.” John Stott finishes off his splendid and influential commentary on the Sermon with these words: “So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us the radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.”[1]
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[1] J. R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (The Bible Speaks Today; ed. Stott; Downer Grove, Ill.: IVP, 1985), 205. On Stott, J. P. Greenman, et al., The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries, 266-279.
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