Ok, the start of a series on the sermon on the mount. Not me explaining what it means. I'm not qualified to do that, no... I'm going to try and look at how we might go about learning how to live out a sermon-on-the-mount lifestyle. That is, how we can practise that kind of life rather than nod wisely at some sound exposition.
So, how will I do this... well, I'm not sure... this will be an example of what I call in my blog strapline, "half baked thinking". But I hope that as I explore where these posts take me, then I (maybe even we) can learn something.
What's guiding my thinking? Well a while ago, I developed a learning process that I called Practice Centred Discipleship and I suggested that there were three recurring phases of such a discipleship Exploration, Experimentation and Explanation. So, I'm going to see if these ideas help me work out a way of learning.
Linked to that, I'm going to take some ideas that I've been working with in my day job (university lecturer) about a Scholarship of Practice. Now this scholarship is, I think, a scholarship of attention rather than a scholarship of knowing. By that I mean, that I think learning owes more to what we pay attention than to what we know. Noticing things, paying attention to things said, attending to what is going on... all help learning more than knowing stuff.
Now, I think that there are three aspects of life to which we should pay attention if we wish to improve how we life our lives:
- an engagement with ideas
- a practise of inquiry
- a noticing of moment-by-moment relations
so, I'm going to use these 'methods' to help me learn how to live the sermon on the mount. I do hope that I haven't bored anyone rigid yet... I'll end this post here before I do and start the process in the next post.
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