Rom. 1:16–"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and then to the Greek also."
1 Cor. 2:2–"For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
The heart of the Christian message is often misrepresented as a sort of cartoon caricature of social concern loosely mixed with some poorly interpreted verses of Scripture and some famous historical quotes like, "God helps those who help themselves (a Ben Franklin creation)."
In truth, though, Christianity is based singularly on Christ. Even more directly, Christianity is about Christ crucified and resurrected. And, as Paul asserts above, not only is this the essential message of Christianity, the Gospel as it were, but this Gospel is, in fact, the very power of God.
It is because of this, therefore, we should not ever forget the simple and offensive essence of Christianity, which is Jesus Christ crucified.
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