“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away…”
Jesus preaches these words in his Sermon on the Mount, which we continue to study this Sunday. It’s controversial. It’s provocative. It’s scandalous. What can it mean?
Make sure you come to church tomorrow morning and we’ll try and figure this out together…
Pastor to the Community & Director of Strategic Initiatives at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) in Hyde Park, Chicago.
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away…”
By Proclamation 