Found the following about as good as it gets, and I do my fair share of getting around the evangelical blogosphere. With Easter behind us, it never means the cross and resurrection shouldn’t be daily before us.
“The resurrection is not a sentimental story about never giving up, or the possibility of good coming from evil. It is not first of all a story about how suffering can be sanctified, or a story of how Jesus suffered for all of humanity so we can suffer with the rest of humanity. The resurrection is the loud declaration that Jesus is enough–enough to atone for your sins, enough to reconcile you to God, enough to present you holy in God’s presence, enough to free you from the curse of the law, enough to promise you there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
“Something objectively happened on the cross, and that objective work was broadcast to the whole world by an empty tomb. The good news is not a generic message of love for everyone or hope for all. The gospel is the theological interpretation of historical fact. You might put the good news like this: Faith will be counted to us as righteousness when we believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification (Rom. 4:24-25).
HT: Kevin DeYoung
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Amen. and Amen. Love this.
Glad to hear that Heather, I found it very helpful in that there’s much confusion out there about the implications regarding the Resurrection, I think DeYoung does a real good job of explaining it in every day layman’s terms.