Mission/Vision

KING’S CROSS CHURCH exists to glorify God and enlarge His Kingdom by gathering regularly to proclaim and celebrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, yielding to the authority of God’s Word as illuminated by the Holy Spirit and summarized in the historic Christian Creeds and Reformed Confessions, partaking together of Christ’s presence in the Sacraments, providing opportunities to love and serve one another in Community, equipping the saints for Ministry to those who are lost and hurting, both locally and globally, and preparing them to cultivate Shalom (peace and well-being) wherever God calls them to serve.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Lectionary Thoughts: March 1

LEVITICUS 4: In this chapter we have the rather strange instructions concerning the sacrifice that priests were to offer when they sinned "bringing guilt upon the people." The sacrificial bull was to be taken "outside of the camp" to a "clean place" and burned with fire on "the ash heap." Hmm. What in the world...?

We know that Jesus is the fulfillment of every Old Testament sacrifice. Like the bull in Leviticus 4, Jesus was sacrificed (crucified) outside of the camp (Jerusalem.) And like the sacrificial rite in Leviticus 4, "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). How, you ask, did the rite in Leviticus 4 "cleanse"? Well, as our pioneer forefathers well knew, when you render animal fat with fire and mix it with ashes you make, wait for it.....soap. Soap!? Yep, soap.

Jesus, the one who was sacrificed on a hill outside of the holy city is the fulfillment of the sin offering in Leviticus 4, and the answer to David's, and every penitent sinner's prayer, "Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalm 51:7).
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