Sacred Texts & Sources
The Gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — four portraits of one Lord, read constantly, memorized deeply, argued over joyfully. The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) is the order’s charter of the Kingdom life; the parables are its pedagogy; the passion narratives its ground zero. Read them as news before reading them as instruction: something happened.
The Rest of the New Testament
Acts for the Church’s explosive beginning, Paul’s letters for the theology of grace (Romans, Galatians, Ephesians above all), the General Epistles for the lived ethic, Revelation for the hope that history ends in wedding, not wreckage. The Psalms — technically Old Testament — are the order’s prayer book, giving words to every human emotion before God.
The Great Tradition
Augustine’s Confessions (the interior life mapped), the desert fathers and mothers (radical simplicity), the mystics (Julian of Norwich’s “all shall be well”), the Reformers on grace, the Wesleys on the warmed heart, Bonhoeffer on costly discipleship, King on the beloved community. Two thousand years of witnesses, one cloud, same direction: toward the risen Christ.
The Bible is not a rulebook but a love story with a resurrection in the middle. Read it like one.