2. A
CHRSTIAN
WORLDVIEW
The Cross of Grace

3. The cross is the most recognizable symbol in the
whole world

4. It represents an answer to life’s most problematic issue…

5. …an answer to the human predicament.....

6. …but there are others who believe they have found a more effective answer and...

7. …they are almost right!

8. The Human Predicament
The
Problem of Sin

9. The
Problem of Sin
Social
Personal

10. Social
Slavery
War
Injustice, Terrorism

11. Personal
Hatred
Prejudice
Retribution

12. Answers to the Human Predicament
Today’s text outlines the two most prolific....

13. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24
“For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block…

14. …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.

15. Works
“For Jews
request a sign...”

16. Ephesians 2:8-9
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

17. Wisdom
“Greeks seek
after wisdom.”

18. 1 Corinthians 2:14
“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

19. The inadequacy to both of these is that they fail to get to the heart of
the matter, literally.

20. Sin is a matter
of the Heart!

21. Romans 6:17
“But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.”

22. The Answer
is the Cross!

23. 1 Corinthians 1:18
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

24. The Cross is
a Call to your heart!

25. expression of God’s love!
It is an
expression of God’s love!

26. “The gospel, on the other hand, declares that God loves people
“The gospel, on the other hand, declares that God loves people. He is not out to get them. He is not against them.

27. He is not waiting for them to trip up so he can squash them
He is not waiting for them to trip up so he can squash them. Quite the contrary, he is on their side. He loves them so…

28. …much that he has set free from sin and death all people everywhere by the atoning sacrifice
of his Son.”
J. Michael Feazell

29. Only a Solution which God Initiates will Suffice!

30. A
CHRSTIAN
WORLDVIEW
The Cross of Grace