This intrigoing interpretation and application of the Sermon on the Mount ex plores what Jesus was really trying to across to his disciples who he teid down his famous pidelines for the Christian life it is tisrald Mano's conten tion that Christendom fise neither understood the Sermon fully nor taken it seriously enough The Sermon is full of unnerving notions in the sense that it contains explosive ideas so explosive, in fact, that for too thousand years the Church has been trying to soften it and after it to comply with preconceived values in stort we've never caught up to Jesus teaching in the Sermon on

the Misunt Why Does Jesus Make Me fervous is Gerald Mane's attempt to look at the Sermon on the Mount with fresh eyes, to fear it as Jesus disciples hesed it without the clutter of years of familiarity His approach is topical exploring Jesus unnerving notions about happiness, Christian strategy plety wealth and where a Christian Ilves Study questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for group study as well as individual reading

Find out what would happen if in our daily lives we dared to practices the principles Jesus gave us in the Sermon on the Mount! Gerald Menn's apt analysis of what we think Jesus says in the Sermon and what is really says may surprise you.