The message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18
The cross has been a powerful symbol for nearly 2,000 years, but what does it symbolize? I bought a slice of pizza in Philadelphia one day, and the clerk asked me what my cross meant. He was wearing a coptic cross. Someone had told him the coptic part, but he didn't seem to understand that all the variations of the cross represent the same thing -- Christ's total sacrifice of himself for us.
Conversations like that one in the pizza place make me wonder whether a cross is really an appropriate accessory item. We wouldn't wear a tiny electric chair or a miniature hangman's noose. Does a cross pendant or cross earrings trivialize the solemnity of that first cross and the value of what we were offered on that hill outside Jerusalem?
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