In light of David’s posts on Preaching Christ, we must also remember to center our preaching of Christ on his cross. John Stott wrote,
The fact that a cross became the Christian symbol, and that Christians stubornly refused,
in spite of the ridicule, to discard it in favor of something less offensive, can have only on
explanation. It means that the centrality of the cross originated in the mind of Jesus
himself.
– John Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 31.
Christ himself deemed the cross worthy of his path to victory over death. He found it necessary for our reconciliation to God. He died in the brutality and incomprehensible offensiveness of the cross taking God’s punishment of our sin upon himself. If he pointed his life to the cross, so must our preaching.
