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Cross Centered Preaching
by Lowell Blasingame
``For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God'' (1 Cor. 1:18).
I marvel that many of my brethren today who talk about a renewal of cross-centered preaching seem to know so little about what it means to preach the cross of Christ.
To preach the cross is to preach the gospel, for Paul equates the preaching of one with the other (1 Cor. 1:17-18; Romans 1:16). But if one preaches the gospel as God's power for saving, he must teach man's need for obeying it for God will take vengeance on those who do not obey it (II Thess. 1:6-8). One cannot preach the cross without preaching this.
To preach the cross of Christ is to preach the shedding of His blood, for it was while there that His side was pierced ``and forthwith there came out blood and water'' (John 19:34). To preach His blood, one must preach the church that He purchased with it (Acts 20:28), that those reconciled by the blood of the cross (Col. 1:20) are reconciled ``in one body'' (Eph. 2:16) which is His church. One can't preach the cross and not preach the importance of the Lord's church in our salvation.
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