Unpacking the meaning of the cross.The
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? Sermon and Worship Series Download provides everything you need for a Lenten sermon series, complete with sermon outlines, hymn suggestions, and worship helps. It contains resources for each of Lent’s six Sundays and Easter.
Resources include:
- Sermon outlines
- Prayers, readings, and hymn suggestions for use in worship
- A promotional worship video and presentation slides
- Social media images for promoting the series
As a bonus, the download also includes resources to promote small-group studies using Adam Hamilton’s book
Why Did Jesus Have to Die?.
The New Testament authors didn’t settle on one meaning of the crucifixion but instead offered a dozen or more metaphors to explain how it saves, but often without a clear explanation of how Jesus’s death accomplishes the saving work they describe. Because of this vagueness, wrapping our minds around the logic and meaning of the cross can cause us to miss the full impact it can have on our daily lives.
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? is written to help make sense of the crucifixion, to listen for how God might speak to us through it, and that we might say, along with Paul, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20).
