Don't think just because you come into a building with a cross on front you closer to Christ.

Dr. Tony Evans says coming to church is no substitute for coming to the Lord for forgiveness.

When you discover the cross it is the epitome of how God feels

about sin. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

and president of the Urban Alternative.

The Cross isn't just the symbol of Christianity.

It's the very heart of Christianity.

And today, Dr Evans helps us understand why.

Let's join him.

Paul, in writing the Book of Galatians,

wants to remind those who are his audience

about the centrality of the cross.

Says in chapter... of the neutrality of the cross.

Says in chapter 6 verse 11 as he prepares to close the book,

see with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

As I close the book, Paul says,

I want to write this thing big, large. because I don't want you to miss this.

This is a transcendent truth that summarizes everything.

The cross. In fact his statement in

verse 14 would be the key. But may it never be that I would boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul has been saved for some time, and yet he's saying, I'm still bragging on the cross.

He did not let the historical reality of the cross get lost in his mind, his thoughts, his

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