{"product_id":"the-impossible-teachings-of-jesus-you-cant-obey-the-sermon-on-the-mount-and-thats-good-news","title":"The Impossible Teachings of Jesus: You Can't Obey the Sermon on the Mount - And That's Good News","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sermon on the Mount isn't hard--it's devastating.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Teachings of Jesus\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrew Farley takes readers straight into Christianity's most admired--and most misunderstood--sermon. For centuries, the Sermon on the Mount has been treated as a spiritual rulebook, a blueprint for moral success, and a road map to becoming \"more like Jesus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book turns that entire assumption upside down.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePluck out your eye. Anger is murder. Be perfect like God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's not inspiration. It's a demolition job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarley shows that the Sermon on the Mount was never meant to produce better behavior. Instead, it was designed to shatter self-righteousness, expose our total inability, and drive us to the only place grace can actually be found. Jesus wasn't raising the bar so we could try harder; he was removing every illusion that we could succeed at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the Sermon on the Mount has ever left you exhausted, discouraged, or afraid you're failing God, this book finally explains why. With clarity, humor, and biblical precision, Farley reveals how Jesus's words function in their pre-cross context--and why reading them as a Christian self-improvement plan creates confusion, burnout, and toxic faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will show you why:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMixing law and grace never works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sermon on the Mount is not a motivational speech but a mirror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Try-harder Christianity\" was never Jesus's point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken seriously, the Sermon on the Mount dismantles every strategy for self-improvement and leaves no room for performance-based faith. And that's exactly where the message of Jesus begins--not with what you can do for God, but with what he has done for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Farley","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":45826479849608,"sku":"9780310372356","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0044\/1309\/6047\/files\/9780310372356.jpg?v=1778822177","url":"https:\/\/faithgateway.com\/products\/the-impossible-teachings-of-jesus-you-cant-obey-the-sermon-on-the-mount-and-thats-good-news","provider":"FaithGateway","version":"1.0","type":"link"}