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Love for Lent

February 24, 2020 Elizabeth Bryant
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Check out this beautiful Lenten liturgy put together by Tim Otto from Sojourners Community in San Francisco. Based on the Sermon on the Mount, it is a wonderful Lenten guide inspired by the Sermon on the Mount that offers practices, poetry and music each day.

Here is an overview of Love for Lents.

During Lent, when we remember Christ’s death, let’s not forget that the Roman Empire executed Jesus as a political threat. As we face into an election year in the U.S., we need to recall the political witness of Jesus, whose central teaching is, “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.”

Rather than giving up something small like sugar for Lent, let’s take up Jesus’ political witness. In chapter four of Matthew, Jesus goes through his own forty-day version of Lent in the desert as Satan tempts him with provisions (bread), power (commanding angels), and prestige (ruling all kingdoms). These are essentially the tools of politics as usual. Beginning in Matthew 5, however, Jesus preaches the Sermon on the Mount—which is a constitution for a kingdom governed by what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the weapon of love.” It’s a whole new way of politics, a way that God’s people are to model, a way that seeks to bless and love.

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