Teachings
Integrity
Righteousness reshaped at the heart through sincerity, purity, hidden faithfulness, and true worship.
Blessings that describe the citizens and values of the kingdom.
Jesus frames the Law with fulfilment and calls for deeper righteousness.
Jesus forbids revenge and teaches a posture of costly non-retaliation.
Defilement arises from the heart, not merely from food.
Relationships
Love, forgiveness, mercy, and reconciliation lived out in relationships shaped by God’s will.
Anger, insult, and contempt fracture relationships and must be repaired without delay.
Jesus treats marriage as covenant and confronts easy dissolution.
Matthew 5:31-32 • Matthew 19:3-9 • Mark 10:2-12 • Luke 16:18
The Father's kindness becomes the pattern for enemy-love.
Forgiveness is integral to prayer and fellowship with the Father.
Hypocritical judgement is condemned; self-examination is demanded.
Money
Wealth exposed as a test of allegiance, revealing where trust, loyalty, and treasure truly lie.
Treasures reveal the heart and determine vision.
Life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.
Prayer
Communion with the Father marked by trust, persistence, worship, and dependence.
A pattern of prayer: worship, kingdom, provision, forgiveness, dependence.
Persistence in prayer grounded in the Father's goodness.
Faith
Trust shaped by God’s care, overcoming fear and sustaining assurance amid trouble.
Anxiety is answered by the Father's care and the ordering of desire.
Jesus gives a non-worldly peace that holds under trouble.
Discipleship
Following Jesus through humility, service, obedience, and public allegiance.
The call to follow includes a new purpose.
Priority: God's reign and righteousness before all lesser needs.
Public allegiance to Jesus has eternal weight.
Greatness is defined by humility and receiving the lowly.
Jesus inverts greatness: the great are servants.
Love for Jesus is expressed as obedience and abiding.
Sacrifice
Costly following marked by self-denial, loss, and the surrender of competing claims.
Jesus confronts would-be followers with the cost and urgency of discipleship.
Discipleship means self-denial, cross-bearing, and life found through loss.
Following Jesus requires cross-bearing loyalty above every other claim.
Corruption
Hypocrisy exposed as false leadership, hardened hearts, and spreading spiritual decay.
False teachers are recognised by outcome, not claims.
Religious speech can be empty; obedience reveals reality.
A generation demanding spectacle is confronted by repentance and judgement.
Hypocrisy spreads quietly and corrupts the whole.
Jesus speaks with severity about causing others to fall.
Hypocrisy masks injustice, pride, and spiritual blindness.
Repentance
Responding to God’s reign through repentance, readiness, humility, and Spirit-given life.
The opening call of Jesus: repentance in light of God's reign.
The kingdom is received in humility, not seized by status.
Divinity
Jesus reveals God, himself, and ultimate reality through word, presence, and promise.
True knowledge of God comes by divine revelation, not mere cleverness.
Jesus frames death and life in relation to believing in him.
Access to the Father is personal and Christ-centred.