Episode 35: Reimagining righteousness

Before we move on to Matthew 6, let’s take an episode to review. What Jesus is giving his hearers in Matthew 5 is a vision for a kind of righteousness that is different from what they’ve learned from their religious leaders. We can’t turn his teaching into a new legalism, as if he were asking us to out-Pharisee the Pharisees. Rather, we need to let his words transform our imagination of what true righteousness could be.