A Christian writer tells of his teaching experience: “I shall not forget some years ago when I was teaching at a boy’s school in Richmond, Va. I had just completed a rather involved discussion of the doctrine of the cross. At that point, a bright young lad rose to his feet and said, “Sir, I see what you are talking about, and I understand, but so what?”

Now, many of us have heard about the cross all our lives. We know it has something to do with life and death, love and hate, victory and defeat. Why, we’ve even formed a mental picture of a man dying on a cross. And Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” enlarges that picture, but so what?

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The Rev. Hal Brady is an ordained United Methodist minister and executive director of Hal Brady Ministries, based in Atlanta. You can watch him preach every week on the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters TV channel Thursdays at 8 p.m.

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