Song: The Old Rugged Cross At the Upper Room “It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child “A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.”― Andrew Murray, Jesus Himself “The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.”― William Golding Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God’s scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ”― Philip Yancey “Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. ‘The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared’ (Luther).”― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community “Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”― John R.W. Stott “Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.”― John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life All God’s plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them. –E. M Bounds Read more: whatchristianswanttoknow/22-quotes-about-the-cross/#ixzz3BPXNm2ac https://youtube/watch?v=KaxIXl0RiTM
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