The Challenge of Jesus, by N.T. Wright

The Challenge of Jesus

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God; the more we learn about the cross, in all its historical and theological dimensions, the more we discover about the one in whose image we are made, and hence about our own vocation to be the cross-bearing people, the people in whose lives and service the living God is made known.

When therefore we speak… of shaping our world, we do not – we dare not – simply treat the cross as the thing which saves us ‘personally’, but which can be left behind when get on with the job. The task of shaping our world is best understood as the redemptive task of bringing the achievement of the cross to bear on the world; and in that task the methods, as well as the message, must be cross-shaped through and through.

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