The Cross. Can you turn any direction without seeing one? Perched atop a chapel. Carved into a graveyard headstone. Engraved in a ring or suspended on a chain. Tattooed on a person's arm. Printed on a Christian t-shirt. The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. An odd choice, don't you think?
Strange that a tool of torture would come to embody a movement of hope. The symbols of other faiths are more upbeat; the six-pointed star of David, the crescent moon of Islam, a lotus blossom for Buddhism. Yet a cross for Christianity? An instrument of execution?
Why is the cross the symbol of the Christian faith? To find the answer, look no further than the cross itself. . It's design couldn't be simpler. One beam horizontal, the other vertical. One reaches out, like God's love. The other reaches up, as does God's holiness. One represents the width of His love; the other reflects the height of His holiness. The cross is the intersection. The cross is where God forgave His children without lowering His standards.
How could He do this? In a sentence: God put our sin on His Son and punished it there. This describes the width of Christ' love for you. He stretched one hand to the right and the other to the left and had them nailed in that position so you would know He died loving YOU.
Excerpts taken from the Max Lucado book On Calvary's Hill
Strange that a tool of torture would come to embody a movement of hope. The symbols of other faiths are more upbeat; the six-pointed star of David, the crescent moon of Islam, a lotus blossom for Buddhism. Yet a cross for Christianity? An instrument of execution?
Why is the cross the symbol of the Christian faith? To find the answer, look no further than the cross itself. . It's design couldn't be simpler. One beam horizontal, the other vertical. One reaches out, like God's love. The other reaches up, as does God's holiness. One represents the width of His love; the other reflects the height of His holiness. The cross is the intersection. The cross is where God forgave His children without lowering His standards.
How could He do this? In a sentence: God put our sin on His Son and punished it there. This describes the width of Christ' love for you. He stretched one hand to the right and the other to the left and had them nailed in that position so you would know He died loving YOU.
Excerpts taken from the Max Lucado book On Calvary's Hill
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