About this episode
This episode discusses the significance of the cross in re-founding the world around love and forgiveness instead of power and violence.
The third temptation was to avoid the cross. But the cross is how Jesus re-founds the world. Instead of being organized around an axis of power enforced by violence, at the cross Jesus reorganized the world around an axis of love expressed in forgiveness.
People in this episode
Host: Pastor Brian Zahnd
Topics covered
- temptation
- cross
- forgiveness
- love
- power
- Christianity
Keywords
- cross
- temptation
- forgiveness
- love
- Jesus
- Christianity
- violence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Word of Life Church
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