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Christ Crucified
by Pastor David

Is it possible to be too Gospel-centered? To make too much of Christ crucified? Paul’s concern for the Corinthians certainly seems to say you can’t. His desire was to know nothing else among them, and for them to fixate on Christ crucified. Throughout church history, faithful preachers have obeyed this example and done the same. Here’s a quote from the Prince of Preachers. Let’s make “Christ crucified” the message we preach in our daily evangelism and prize in our Sunday gatherings.

“Dear friends, I am going to preach to you again upon the corner-stone of the gospel. How many times will this make, I wonder?

The doctrine of Christ crucified is always with me. As the Roman sentinel in Pompeii stood to his post even when the city was destroyed, so do I stand to the truth of the atonement though the Church is being buried beneath the boiling mud-showers of modern heresy.

Everything else can wait, but this one truth must be proclaimed with a voice of thunder. Others may preach as they will, but as for this pulpit, it shall always resound with the substitution of Christ.

“God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Some may continually preach Christ as an example, and others may perpetually discourse upon His coming to glory: we also preach both of these, but mainly we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them that are saved Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”
                            C. H. Spurgeon