Creativity and
intelligence can certainly adorn the gospel of grace, but there is no
amount of creativity and intelligence that can waken a dead soul. Only
the foolishness of the gospel can do that (1 Cor. 1:18). Not even
sacrificial good works and biblical social justice can wake a dead soul,
for the law has no power to raise in and of itself. Only the
foolishness of the gospel can do that. And it is a shame that there are
an increasing number of churches(!) that are blanching at the
foolishness of the gospel these days. But Paul knows that the hope of
the church and the world is the alien righteousness of Christ announced
in that scandalous historical headline. “For Christ did not send me to
preach the gospel with words of eloquent wisdom,” he says, “lest the
cross of Christ be emptied of its power” (1 Cor. 1:17). - Jared Wilson
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