Cross-Shaped Life: Taking on Christ's Humanity

In the cross, we discover not only who God is, but who we are made to be.

Who are we? This is one of the oldest questions, and the bottom-line answer is that we are created in the image of God. But when we ask what it means to live in the image of God, we cannot forget the cross. After all, God came, took on our likeness, and died on the cross. So what does it mean to live in the image of a God who is willing to die on a cross?

Though the cross is a well-known symbol in Western society, we ar...