Preaching the Cross

I am struck reading through 1 Corinthians 1.17-25, that what stands out as clearly as a bell tower is that what Paul preached above everything else was Christ crucified. Sure he spoke about love, and faithfulness, about God's judgment and justice. He taught about the second coming of Christ. He taught about the law in relation to the gospel. However, he taught as most important Jesus Christ and him crucified.

If our preaching and teaching are not saturated with the cross of Christ; if we don't, as Spurgeon once said, "wherever I start in the Scriptures, I make a beeline for the cross, then we are not preaching the gospel as Paul preached it. Let us proclaim to the world until our last breath that the only answer to the question of who we are, and why we are here, and what is our purpose, lies at the foot of the cross.