True Story | Part 8 | Cross
This message is about the subversive Cross.
The word subversive means: “tending or intending to overthrow, destroy or undermine an established or existing system”. And this is exactly what the Cross of Christ does. It overthrows, destroys and undermines any cultural or religious human system of morality and control, showing its inadequacies, and instead displaying the love and righteousness of God.
In this message, we are going to look at four cultural values that the Cross confronts, completes and consoles. Two of them were very prominent in Paul’s first century world; wisdom and power. The last two are very prominent in our post-modern world; justice and freedom. We are going to explore the subversive impact of the Cross on all four of these cultural values.
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