For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel - not with eloquent wisdom, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect. For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.

1 Corinthians 1:17-18 CSB

More problems in Corinth. 

Not only it seems is there a personality drama going on, there's also arguments about what Jesus was all about, about what the cross was all about. 

It's OK to wrestle with ideas and what things mean, but it seems that these arguments were making out that the Cross, Jesus death, had no meaning, no power in a person's life.

The Cross says a lot of things:

It says you're worth it.

That you're worthy.

That you're enough.

That you're dearly loved.

That there is redemption, hope, a future where our tears are wiped away, where the broken things are unbroken, where the hurt parts of us are unhurt. 

There's an invitation to sit with the power of the Cross and let it speak into and through our lives.

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