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Newsflash: Jesus is Relevant Without Any Help From Us

On the seven-mile trek to Emmaus, when Jesus explained to His unwitting disciples the necessity of the atonement (Luke 24:26), “he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27) and thereby provided the church with a paradigm for biblical interpretation: read the Bible through the lens of the atoning work of Jesus Christ. We cannot ignore the bold claim of our King that the entire Old Testament, “the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms” (Luke 24:44), contained the message of the coming Messiah and was fulfilled in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

This means that the entire Bible is relevant to contemporary believers on the basis of the incarnation, life, sacrificial death, and resurrection unto glory of Jesus Christ. So our job is not to figure out ways of making the gospel relevant to the next generation; it is to proclaim the Christ of Scripture and the offense of the Cross.