Cross Sunday at Crossroads

We recently had "Cross Sunday" at my church. We built a 35 foot cross and put it up in the middle of our worship center. We set up all the chairs in a U-shape around it, and Pastor Todd spoke from the floor in front of it.

We had talked about doing this a few months ago, and this past Sunday worked well, because the scripture passage Pastor Todd was preaching from was Matthew 5:17-20, in which Jesus tells the people that unless their righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees, they will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

None of us is capable of this kind of righteousness in our own sinful and fallen state. This is the most deceptive lie that Satan feeds to the lost: that if they try hard to live a good life, they might have a "shot" at getting in to heaven; and many people believe that they're doing a good job, and are fairly confident they'll get in because God is supposed to be a "loving God" right?

Nope. The only way we can get the type of righteousness is if we are given it through Christ. That's the ONLY way.

All the worship songs we sang that morning were cross-focused, and we shared communion together. It was a really powerful object lesson, and reminder that we should live our lives with the cross at the center. Click HERE to go to the recap on my worship blog where you can see pictures.