Jesus' Sermon on the Mount represents an important starting-point for Christians faith. The great respect for this Sermon often goes hand-in-hand with a certain feeling of embarranssment. Can the gold contained in Jesus' words actully be converted into currency for underway? This book explores that issue in a fresh and timely manner. It offers an exegetical discussion of Matthew 5-7. Every passage is discussed in terms of the core of Jesus's teaching as it applies to Christian practice.