Assuming That He Meant What He Said

At Renew we believe that the teachings and life of Jesus are to be taken seriously. 
Jesus demands a wholehearted, single-minded focus on his ways. 

Ponder this stretching and formidable quote from Emmet Fox:

“Either Jesus is to be taken seriously, or he is not to be taken seriously, in which case his teaching should be dropped altogether and people should cease to call themselves Christians. To pay lip service to his name, to say that Christianity is the divinely inspired Truth, to boast of being Christians, and then quietly to evade in practice all the definite implications of his teaching, is hypocrisy and weakness of the most utterly fatal kind. Either Jesus is a reliable guide, or he is not. If he is to be relied upon, then let us pay him the compliment of assuming that he meant what he said, and that he knew best about the art of living.”  

-The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life by Emmet Fox (1886-1951)