Today our society is saturated with the cross. Many people wear crosses around their necks. However, the other day in a jewelry store I saw the notice "Crosses On Sale - Half Price Crosses." We would surely love a Jesus that only demands a "lite" cross, everything we would want in a Messiah, but less, like us.

One day two pastors were debating whose church had the finest cross in appearance and cost. One pastor said to the other, "Our cross cost $10,000.00." The other pastor said "Our cross cost $5,000.00" Finally a teenager who heard the conversation between the two pastors said "I am really surprised you paid $10,000.00 for a cross, for there was a time when the world gave Christians a cross for free, whether they wanted it or not."

Most of our churches has hundreds of crosses in them. They are on the walls, on the song books, on our Bible, on the teaching materials. Crosses, crosses everywhere. Why so many reminders of the cross? Is there something so special about the cross and it's many meanings that we forever keep it before us?

It really doesn't matter how many crosses we have in our churches, but it does matter if we know what the cross has done for our lives.