“God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14 KJV). Christians are called to allow the cross to form their lives; it is the cross of Jesus Christ. It cannot form me until I have embraced it as a way of life; that is called cruciform living. Jesus said that without taking up this cross, we cannot be His disciple. We keep trying; we look for detours around it. Cross-less thinking and cross-less living is messing up our message; it is destroying a true Christian witness.
“When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (NRSV)
