That message sounds a bit like “Don’t Worry. Be Happy.”—eh?
Similarly, that conclusion to Jesus’ “Sermon of the Mount” message also indicates that the millions of birds of the air don’t spend all their days wondering about where their next bite to eat will come as man too often does.
Again the message from the founder Jesus for believers and readers of the Gospel of Matthew seems to be, simply put, “Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”.
Sometimes The Problem Is The Package—Not The Message
Naturally, what that German pastor was trying to remind his small and aging flock in this time of global political, economic, social and spiritual stress was that the Christian Church is too often packaging itself in terms of doom and gloom.
Too many Christians are living out their lives with dour faces and stress.
This is certainly why humanists (of which I am one to a great degree) can say that the packaging of the Christian message is often wrong and distorting.
On the one hand, there is too little real radical hope in the Christian message and witness of the Christian right. On the other hand, there is too much acceptance of the status quo by others.
NOTE: The status quo in America for nearly half a century, for example, has been that social justice and religious renewal do not go hand in hand. Bah Humbug!!
That sort of dour survey of Christian roots and history needs a great modern moral revisionist shake-up which the British Humanists the likes of Dawkins and Sherine have recently provided through their campaign focusing on advancing their political space, exercising freedom of speech, and discussing of freedom of religion.
The German-speaking minister of a bilingual, bicultural church of Americans and Germans in Hessen, Germany simply changed a few letters on the now-famous British advertising sign as follows: “leaving many monotheistic believers very clear about the approach we need to take when speaking about our beliefs in public acts, words, or deeds.”
This was the final message of the sermon, thanks to the background provided by the on-going humanist campaign across Europe: "There's probably a God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life".
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