The Cross

"The very idea that we might know God abstracted from how God makes himself known was the result of the loss of Christian politics called church. . . .Christians betray themselves as well as their non-Christian brothers and sisters when in the interest of apologetics we say and act as if the cross of Christ is incidental to God's being. In fact, the God we worship and world God created cannot be truthfully known without the cross, which is why the knowledge of God and ecclesiology--or the politics called church--are interdependent."

-Stanley Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology (Brazos, 2001), 16-17.

This week, we should reflect on the cross. The cross is the lens in which we can see and know God as he truly is.

The cross was once a sign of Roman power--Don't mess with Rome or you'll end up on a cross. It is now the most widely embraced Christian symbol. That is redemption. That is the power of Easter.