“This, then, is the Christ that Jesus would have us know and accept and (O Christian!) reflect:
One who came to die.
One who, in the assessment of this age, failed – an embarrassment, a folly, a stumbling block. An offense!
One crucified.
Here in the world, the Christ and His followers hang ever on a cross. The cross is foremost, because a faithless world cannot see past it to the resurrection.
And even for the faithful the cross must always be first, because the Resurrection is only as real (both in history and in our hearts) as the death is real. …
If ever we persuade the world (or ourselves) that we have a hero in our Christ, then we have lied. Or else we are deceived, having accepted the standards of this world.”
Walter Wangerin Jr. Reliving the Passion
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