The Cross is not just how God forgives sinners — the Cross creates a people. Pentecost is not fireworks — it is the moment the message of the Cross becomes a community — the ἐκκλησία — the called-out assembly.Peter preached the Cross — the Spirit fell — and the Church was born.Acts shows this: Cross → Spirit → Church. The early Church wasn’t built by preference, style, branding, or personality — it was built on the Cross and resurrection of Jesus. The Cross is not a symbol — it is where love and justice meet.Lennox reminds us: the Cross is evidence — God enters history and takes evil seriously in Himself. Wesley reminds us: the Cross is power — grace not only pardons us, grace purifies us and breaks sin’s power.So the Cross answers the mind and the heart.The Cross is not only TRUE — the Cross is TRANSFORMING. Not only how you get to heaven — it’s how heaven gets into you.Therefore — come again to the Cross — not just to be forgiven — but to be remade into a new creation.📖 Bible Passages Explored:Acts 2, verse 36Romans 3, verses 25–26 (God is just & justifier)Galatians 2, verse 20 (crucified with Christ)Romans 6, verse 6 (old self crucified)1 Corinthians 1, verse 18 (the Cross is power)1 Corinthians 15, verses 3 & 4 (eyewitness gospel)
