Paul writes: \u2018For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 1:22\u201324 NKJV) There\u2019s no Jewish way to be saved, or Gentile way to be saved. There\u2019s only one way to be saved\u2014that\u2019s the way of the cross! <\/p>\n
We all have the same need. We need to know<\/i> what\u2019s right and do<\/i> what\u2019s right. We need the wisdom to know what to do, and we need the power to do it. And Christ offers us both through the cross. <\/p>\n
In his early ministry, when Billy Graham preached to a great crowd in Dallas, Texas, there was very little response to his message. As he was leaving the platform, an old man told him, \u2018Your message was good, but you didn\u2019t preach the cross.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Billy went to his room, wept, and resolved, \u2018There will never be a sermon that I preach unless the cross is central.\u2019 Starting that day, God used him to win more people to Christ than almost any other preacher in history. There\u2019s just enough ego in each of us to want to \u2018contribute\u2019 to our salvation by doing good works. But we cannot. <\/p>\n
The hymn-writer Robert Lowry wrote: \u2018What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know; nothing but the blood of Jesus.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul writes: \u2018For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.\u2019 (1 Corinthians 1:22\u201324 NKJV) There\u2019s no Jewish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}