In perhaps His most direct address, Jesus gives a vision for the kind of people He expects His followers to become.  It is an ethic meant to be lived out as a community - values that shape our life together and dare us to hope that we can actually be transformed into the likeness of God.   

“On first reading [the Sermon on the Mount] you feel that it turns everything upside down, but the second time you read it you discover that it turns everything right side up.  The first time you read it you feel that it is impossible; the second time, you feel that nothing else is possible.” - G.K. Chesterton