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Notes:
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Peter and then to the Twelve. After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. And last of all He appeared to me…
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (ESV)
Why is Jesus the ONLY Way?
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
- John 14:6 (NIV)
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
- Matthew 7:13
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.”
- Frederick Douglass
Aren’t All Religions Basically the Same?
View of God – Salvation – Human Nature – Origin & Creation – Meaning & Purpose – Morality – Reality – Heaven & Hell – Good & Evil – The Eternal Soul
Why is Jesus the ONLY Way?
Why Did Jesus Have to Die ON THE CROSS?
Atonement
AT-ONE-MENT
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
- Psalm 51:16-17 (NIV)
“But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 9:13 (NIV)
ANIMAL SACRIFICE
-Physical Demonstration
-Representative Substitution
-Repentant Response
-Repetitious Circle
“The cross is not where Jesus saves us from God, but where Jesus reveals God as savior. The cross is not what God inflicts upon Jesus in order to forgive, but what God in Christ endures as he forgives. The cross is where the sin of the world coalesced into a hideous singularity so that it might be forgiven en masse.”
- Brian Zahnd
THE CROSS
-Legal Resolution
-Philosophical Example
-Spiritual Rescue
-Relational Landmark
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Welcome!
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Notes:
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Peter and then to the Twelve. After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. And last of all He appeared to me…
- 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (ESV)
Why is Jesus the ONLY Way?
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
- John 14:6 (NIV)
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
- Matthew 7:13
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.”
- Frederick Douglass
Aren’t All Religions Basically the Same?
View of God – Salvation – Human Nature – Origin & Creation – Meaning & Purpose – Morality – Reality – Heaven & Hell – Good & Evil – The Eternal Soul
Why is Jesus the ONLY Way?
Why Did Jesus Have to Die ON THE CROSS?
Atonement
AT-ONE-MENT
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
- Psalm 51:16-17 (NIV)
“But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 9:13 (NIV)
ANIMAL SACRIFICE
-Physical Demonstration
-Representative Substitution
-Repentant Response
-Repetitious Circle
“The cross is not where Jesus saves us from God, but where Jesus reveals God as savior. The cross is not what God inflicts upon Jesus in order to forgive, but what God in Christ endures as he forgives. The cross is where the sin of the world coalesced into a hideous singularity so that it might be forgiven en masse.”
- Brian Zahnd
THE CROSS
-Legal Resolution
-Philosophical Example
-Spiritual Rescue
-Relational Landmark