The cross is the real heart of the gospel and the key to the inner meaning of the Christian faith'

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The cross is the real heart of the gospel and
the key to the inner meaning of the Christian
faith. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1929
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If the Cross of Christ is anything to the
mind, it is surely everything the most profound
reality and the sublimest mystery. Samuel M.
Zwemer
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It would be most unseemly to feign a cool
detachment as we contemplate Christs Cross.
For we are involved. Our sins put him
there. John Stott
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Humanity cannot escape God. The race exists in
an unavoidable relation to God, either of wrath
and alienation, or of blessing and fellowship.
Sin places us under the first the Atonement
makes it possible for us to regain the
second. Richard S. Taylor
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His death on the cross was a great example to
the world. Gandhi
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You do not understand Christ till you
understand his cross. P.T. Forsyth
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  The death of Christ is the central point of
history. Stephen Neill
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Calvary was not an option. Richard S.
Taylor
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The cross used to stand for Jesus, and more
precisely, the suffering of Jesus. Now it stands
for an institution that most often doesnt really
stand for anything other than the advancement of
its own institutionality. Michael Card
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He bore the judgment we deserve in order to
bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve.
John Stott
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the
prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but
loss, And poor contempt on all my pride.
Isaac Watts
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Remember, to believe something is to act as
if it is so. Dallas Willard
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We preach Christ crucified a stumbling block
to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those
whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1
Corinthians 123 (NIV)
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The Son of Man came not to be served but to
serve, and to give his life a ransom for
many. Mark 1045 (NRSV)
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"Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world! John the Baptist, John 129
(NASB)
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Your eyes are too pure to look on evil you
cannot tolerate wrong. Habakkuk 113 (NIV)
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When someone is convicted of a crime
punishable by death and is executed, and you hang
him on a tree, his corpse must not remain all
night upon the tree you shall bury him that same
day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God's
curse. Deuteronomy 2122-23 (NRSV)
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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law
by becoming a curse for us, for it is written
Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
Galatians 313 (NIV)
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He himself bore our sins in his body on the
tree, so that we might die to sins and live for
righteousness by his wounds you have been
healed. 1 Peter 224 (NIV)
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free
gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord. Romans 623 (NASB)
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