The Beatitudes as Invitations

I bet you’ll really enjoy Joshua Greever’s study of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12. He shows how the literary context and the allusions to the Old Testament shape the way we ought to read these famous verses. And when read properly, they are not universal promises to all sorts of good or nice people; they aim to shape us into mature Christ-followers.

We need to identify what the Beatitudes are in order to discern how they function. We must see them as Jesus’s invitations shaped by the Old Testament, directed to the empty, and intended to produce faith in Christ. When we read them rightly, we see them as Jesus’s good and gracious gift pointing us to the blessed life.

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