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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.