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It’s common today to see the image of the cross adorning churches, dangling from necklaces, and gleaming from lapels. Yet that image, so sanitized for us today, was grotesque and abhorrent to those living in the first century—a symbol of evil, torture, and shame. It’s this realistic and horrifying view of the cross that should call us to Christian ministry and compel us to share the Good News of...

anything. Do not shame them or embarrass them in front of peers. Deal straightforwardly with the gospel. This leader was simply following the advice of Paul. He was more interested in the integrity of his presentation, which he could not divorce from the integrity of the gospel itself, than with the pressure for impressive statistics. Recognize that a cross-centered ministry is characterized by the Spirit’s power and is vindicated in transformed lives. Paul’s message was attended “with a demonstration
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