Repeating the Basics — The Cross and the Resurrection
Posted on March 8, 2025
Filed under Theology
“Friends in Christ, today I am going to repeat the basics!
When the Apostle Paul summarises the central gospel truths he preached, he writes of what he…
‘…passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…’ (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
It is what you should hear of again and again at any decent church – in our preaching, in our songs, in our confessions, creeds and prayers:
- of the cross, and its meaning (atonement ‘for our sins’), and
- of the resurrection and its meaning (forgiveness, hope and the resurrection of the body, which he unpacks in the rest of 1 Corinthians 15). …”
– In the Cathedral Newsletter, Dean of Sydney, Sandy Grant, reminds us of what we must not forget.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…