The Cost of Discipleship: Matthew Chapters 21-25

Queer Theology

This week, we’re talking about Holy Week! But Matthew’s Gospel is so dense, we only get through Monday and Tuesday!

This passage starts with Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem (often called Palm Sunday but spoiler alert: it didn’t happen on a Sunday!). We look at Jesus’s temple protest and some of the ways that story has fueled antisemitism (sometimes even unwittingly).

We talk about what it means that Jesus left Jerusalem that night, the wild story about the Withering Fig Tree, and more activity at the temple. And the (in)famous passage about sorting sheep from goats and are you going to burn in hell for eternity?!?!

There’s lot in this passage about the cost of discipleship, who Jesus is, why he’s here, what this all means, and what this passage asks of YOU here and now.

New Interpreters Commentary Volume VII

Scary Things Series, podcast episode

Sheep and Goats podcast episode

Black Pink

Abolition Sanctuary, Dr. Nikia Smith and her podcast interview: Abolition As Spiritual Practice

Join the online community Sanctuary Collective.

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