First, we must recall what the Bible teaches about Christ’s sacrificial love. In many ways we have trivialized our understanding of that event—tee-shirts on sale in Christian bookstores show Christ with outstretched arms saying that He loves us “this much.” Here we see something happening in our midst which always happens when the theology of the cross is forgotten. When the meaning of the crucifixion is neglected, men keep their memory of the crucifixion but begin to focus on the physical aspects