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From the Pastor’s Desk

The most common Christian symbol, by far, is the cross. It’s worn around necks, placed on steeples and doors. Whenever we want to show the world that we belong to Christ, the cross is often used.

It’s seems strange that 2 billion humans would use an instrument of torture and capital punishment as their identifying mark. We don’t hang electric chairs, or guillotines around our necks. We don’t place a firing squad of rifles on our doors. So why the cross.

If you ask most Christians, they will tell you how of Jesus died on a cross for our sins. The symbol points to a core story in our experience with God. They might also describe how the symbol points to righteousness and relationships. The vertical beam is a symbol of our right relationship with God. The horizontal pointing to our right relationship with each other.

These two kinds of righteousness are what we’ll be exploring this Sunday because Genesis introduces them to us. And in this way, Genesis introduces us to the person who is righteousness embodied: Jesus.

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I’m looking forward to worshiping with you,

Pastor Jeremy

Questions to Go Deeper

1. What do you think about/ how do you feel about Jeremy’s sermon? Did anything stand out? Was there anything you wondered about?

2. Think of the last time you broke the rules. What effect did it have on you? On your relationship with others? On how you felt before God?

3. What does it mean to make amends?

4. How did Jesus make amends for us? What does he ask us to do to make amends?