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“‘Just the way we want it’ is not a bad paraphrase for ‘amen.’ What is needed at the end of this great prayer is a ringing affirmation of the goodness of God and God's world. If your nerves can take it, you might (occasionally?) try ‘Whoopee!’ I imagine God himself will not mind.”

“Given the prevailing misunderstandings, however, we cannot say too often that in the Sermon on the Mount we are not looking at laws, but at a life: a life in which the genuine laws of God eventually become naturally fulfilled.”