Konawa First United Methodist Church

02/12/2026

01/24/2026

Due to weather and road conditions we will be canceling church service tomorrow. Stay safe and warm!

03/04/2025

TODAY!

09/16/2024

Ewe (You) in a pew. Come join the rest of our flock!

09/08/2024

by: Kenneth Cater Jr.
from: Unrelenting Grace

The gospel is at the core of our faith, and the Sermon on the Mount is at the core of the gospel. Many of the standard sermons that John Wesley gave to the early Methodists were from the Sermon on the Mount. These Sermons began with the Beatitudes, how life is blessed, how we flourish, what happiness means.
Reading these first few verses of Matthew 5 is a reversal of the world’s values. Disciples of Jesus are the salt of the earth, the light of the world. There is something different and distinct about a follower of Jesus. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd,” which is an unconfirmed saying of Flanery O’Connor.
And then a statement that Jesus did not come to abolish the Old Testament – this is not out with the old, in with the new – but he has come to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. And then the six antitheses, “You have heard it said, but I say to you.” Jesus is giving us a higher righteousness.