Friday, August 22, 2008

The Definition of Defeat and Victory - The Relational View

The world has many concepts for success and failure, victory and defeat. It measures these outcomes using different yardsticks like popularity, riches and power, winning or overpowering your enemy or opponent, etc.

However, the teacher from Galilee explained these concepts from almost the opposite angle but nonetheless, from a higher perspective but showed, as well as demonstrated, not only how they are measured but how they were realistic and do-able.

No other passage of Scripture illustrates these concepts as clear as those from the Sermon on the Mount.

In it's simplicity Jesus calls the successful, victorious person - BLESSED. He goes through pains to contrast the other side labeling them explicitly or implicitly as either mediocre, defeated or failures.

So, what is success? What must one be or do to be called blessed?

[work in progress....more soon...]

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