"When Stephen was being stoned to death, his face shone like an angel, yet he never attended a seminar on making angel faces. He never said to himself, 'Hey, I'm a 1000-watt bulb.'

Stephen didn't bask in his own radiant light; he knew that giving light is the work of God. The job of reflector made Stephen happy. "Beatitude people." writes Haddon W. Robinson, "are like that. People don't applaud them, but they can't pass them by."

Writing on Matthew 5, one of the key chapters in the Bible, the author portrays with humor and verve how to be a beatitude person. He describes why such qualities as humility, meekness, and purity bring unexpected results. Most of all, he tells why Sermon on the Mount principles are life-changing and why they are the way to true happiness.

Concerned not only about how these truths transform individual lives but also about how they can change a whole society, the author challenges the reader to be salt and light in a rotten and dark world.