If you were Jesus and you only had a short time to teach your trainees how to start and keep a worldwide Christian movement going, what would you say? It probably wouldn’t start with “blessed.” Here is the God of the universe in human flesh. He is about to open His mouth and provide the principles for a worldwide Christian movement. Would you attend a class taught by Jesus? The brochure says: “Jesus is going to be explaining what He did to get His disciples trained and prepared for starting and keeping a worldwide Christian movement going.

I would sign up for it. I would bring a video camera with lots of charged up batteries, a notepad, audio recorder, and I would try to get there early enough to sit on the front row as close to Him as I could get.

If then Jesus came in, walked to the front, sat down on the edge of the platform, and prepared to speak, the whole crowd would come to a complete silence. What are His first words going to be? He speaks: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.” Oh man, I already have that material. That is old school. I was expecting something really revolutionary.