Discussion
The Foolishness of the Cross (And Why That’s Actually Good News)
What does God use to save the world? Not impressive credentials, polished rhetoric, or a strategy that makes sense to the culture around us. He uses a cross — the seeming foolishness of the cross — something the ancient world considered a shameful, lowly way to die. That’s the audacious claim at the center of 1 Corinthians 1:18: “The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the…