The goal for this week, aside from posts preparing for Good Friday and Easter corporate worship, is going to be to have a quote a day by various pastors and theologians, reflecting on the significance of these days that we observe as the Church.
2 days ago I posted up a quote by Tim Keller to help prepare us for Palm Sunday. Hopefully as we continue the series of quotes, it will be helpful as an aid to all of our worship as we prepare to gather for Good Friday and Easter. The quotes will be by different people, focusing on what Christ accomplished through His death and resurrection. So often we take our church "holidays" for granted, missing opportunities for them to be transforming in our lives. Take this opportunity to read these quotes and accompanying Scripture passages, and prayerfully worship God this week, preparing to gather Friday and Sunday as a church body.
J.I. Packer says,
"Calvary...not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual. The Cross saves."
(From Introduction to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ)
"For in [Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross."
Colossians 2:9-14 ESV
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