Contents
Description
Welcome to Focus On The Message – the first component of our Following Jesus discipleship program. This web page contains the lessons for:
Matthew 5
Purpose
Follow this link for information about these key aspects of our training: Purpose, Goals, Habits, Ministries, and Assignments.
Matthew 5
This chapter has 9. lessons. You should ideally cover one chapter (with all of its lessons) in a week, but please don’t let a week go by without completing at least one lesson.
Lesson 1: The Beatitudes
Main text and related passages:
- Beatitutes – Matthew 5:1-12; Matthew 5:3; Jeremiah 5:1-5; 2 Corinthians 8:8-9 NIV – Bible Gateway
- The beatitudes are intended to be understood as characteristics to emulate, but rather as existing categories of people who, though not necessarily admired by society in general, were be