What's your plan as we go into the holidays for how you're going to share the

gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

resource called Gospel Threads to help you intentionally share Christ in the

fabric of your normal conversations around the table or the living room or wherever you are,

and we want to send you a free copy of gospel threads to your

front door just go to radical dot net slash share Jesus.

Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

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1. 22 through 24. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified,

a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called both Jews

and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Think about that summary of not just the gospel, but people's response to the

gospel.

Like for Jewish people, this is a total stumbling block.

The idea of Christ crucified, like the Messiah nailed to a cross? Galatians three talks about a

cursed is anyone who's hung on a tree. That's what the law said. So for the Messiah to be cursed? Like that is a major

stumbling like the idea that God in the flesh would die a cruel death on a cross. Christ crucified is a total

stumbling block to Jewish people not just in the first entry but even today and to

Gentiles like folly this is crazy to say to somebody and it makes sense like for you and I to say to someone today

Just think the self-made American businessman or businesswoman to tell them

2,000 years ago a Middle Eastern man died on a nondescript hill and a nondescript part of the world. He is nailed to a non-descript part of the world. He is nailed to a cross and his death determines the fate of every single person in the world including you.. Like, really? That seems ridiculous. And it is, it's folly to many people today.

But that's the point. It always has been folly to Gentiles, stumbling block to Jews

but to those who are called both Jews and Greeks. So what's the picture here? It's those who

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