The power of the gospel isn't simply that God walked among us to show us the way we should live. Jesus wasn't merely a prophet or a great teacher. The central focus of the message of the Gospels is not the sermons, teachings, or even the miracles of Jesus. No, each of the Gospels is focused on the last week of Jesus' life; the week He faced His own cruel death, racked with pain upon the cross. Each paints a picture for us, first of Jesus experiencing our human condition of fear, of grief, of pain, when He cries out in the garden, "If it be Your will, let this cup pass from Me!" His death on the cross is the focal point: God's Son bleeds; He dies; His family grieves; they suffer the agony of losing a loved one just as we do. But this is not the end of the Gospels. No, the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ comes on the third day, when Jesus rose from the grave!
-- Adam Hamilton in “Confronting the Controversies”
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