The Cross…..what else is there?

Lately there seems to be a trend in feedback regarding the Grace Message built around the finished work of the cross.  There’s a complaint that the Grace Message is somehow redundant.  All we talk about is the cross.  All we talk about is the New Covenant.  All we talk about is Jesus.  My own personal response: WHAT ELSE IS THERE??

The cross completes everything.  So what else is there to talk about?  To me, everything comes from that moment, in the instant that Jesus died.  Everything came together because of the cross.

Ephesians 1:7-10
“Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, His blood poured out on the alter of the Cross, we’re a free people – free from penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds.  And not just barely free, either.  ABUNDANTLY free!  He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making.  He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in Him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.”

How much longer are we going to use Christianity as a sin management based religion, constantly focused on what other people are doing wrong, rather than what God did right on the cross?  How much longer is the religious spirit going to pick and choose verses out of the Bible to condemn others and themselves….when in reality there really is NO condemnation in Christ.  AT ALL.  (Romans 8:1)

It’s time for a change.  There is only ONE absolute in Christianity; Jesus.  Who He was (God), what He did (Died for the past, present, and future sins of the world), and what that did for humanity (Completely, irreversible salvation through unconditional love).  Everything apart from Jesus is bound to be confused with a mixture of Law (death) and Grace (life).  If you mix those up, then you have the living dead.  Zombies.  Mixed, legalistic Christianity is nothing more than a bunch of brain eating zombies attempting to rob us from our identity.  I believe the love of God continues to overcome religious traditionalism, and self righteousness through the spirit of faith, hope, and love.  Just as strongly as it did 2000 years ago.

This is the Grace reformation.