"WAY OF THE CROSS"
"For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those that are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.' Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demanded miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." - 1 Corinthians 1:17-25
Jesus was born in the dung and straw
Israel's king in a donkey's stall
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
He had a bad reputation and a scandalous streak
Passed over doctors and lawyers to hang with beggars and thieves
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
Brings forth life from a barren womb
Puts wise words in the mouth of a fool

He pardoned the sinners and healed the diseased
But the teachers of religion were His enemies
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
He gave the keys of the kingdom to the meek and the mild
He told the self-righteous grownups to act like a child
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
Cuts down giants by the hand of a boy
Knocks down city walls with nothing but NOISE!

He tore down the curtains, blew open the doors
For a handful of fishermen, pushers and whores
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
He stripped off our disguises, our cover was blown
At the end of all we thought we knew, naked past the bone
It was no accident, it was the way of the cross
Slays whole armies with the jaw-bone of an ass
Puts the end of the world in a book from the past

Jesus was killed on a cross of wood
The king of the Jews died like an ordinary hood
It was no accident...
Brings forth life from an empty tomb
Burns His words in the heart of a fool
Like me
A fool like me

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