Cross Conundrum, Part 2

Leading The Way Radio Podcast

Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Michael Youssef, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons, Bible Study, Theology, Health & Fitness, Jesus, Mental Health, Preaching, Bible, Spirituality, Religion, Holy Spirit, Ltw, Leading The Way

4.9 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As the Church goes, so goes the culture. There is perhaps no greater trigger for our cultural decline than the absence of the Cross of Christ from many a pulpit. In Cross Conundrum, Michael Youssef affirms the relevance, power, and purpose of the Cross in our lives. He also explores why the Cross has become both stigma and enigma in our world today.

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0:00.0	Dateline, London, England, 2006.
0:05.8	A British Airway employee was asked to either remove the cross that she was wearing or risk losing her job.
0:17.1	The employee took her case to the court and sued British Airways,
0:29.2	especially in the light of the fact that Sikhs and Muslims are wearing their religious clothing, and she lost.
0:38.7	The judge said in effect that a Muslim or a Sikh can wear their religious clothing, but the cross is an offense.
0:50.5	They land Los Angeles, California, June 2004. The ICLU threatened to sue the county of Los Angeles, unless they removed a small cross on its seal. But they could keep the goddess
0:59.4	Pomona in that same seal. The cross was immediately removed. Dateline Mohovey Desert, April 2007,
1:10.7	the ACLU threatened to sue. Dateline Mahovey Desert, April 2007.
1:20.7	The ACLU threatened to sue to remove a memorial cross which stood there since 1934.
1:26.5	The government settled for covering the cross with tarps and boards.
1:32.0	Dateline Virginia, USA, November 2006,
1:37.1	the College of William and Mary removed the cross from the campus chapel in order to make it, quote, welcoming to all.
1:42.8	The cross had been there for more than 60 years. Dateline, New York, August 2003,
1:51.4	an interfaith network called for Christian churches to remove the crosses from the churches,
1:59.2	calling them a symbol of oppression.
2:02.0	One of them said, we want to tear down the walls that separate us as people of faith.
2:11.0	What faith are they talking about?
2:13.9	Well, I'm just only going to share those very few ones because I could go on for an hour.
2:20.3	Case after case after case of how the cross is being rejected, despised, and stamped out of public life.
2:31.3	In truth, we are one generation away from total obliteration of what the true
2:39.0	gospel of Jesus Christ is all about. Even today, there are many evangelical churches have decided
2:46.5	not to identify their buildings with the cross. They may have good intentions, but the problem
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