"I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the Church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroads so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek...at the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died, and that is what He died for, and that is what He died about...that is where churchmen ought to be and what churchmen ought to be about." -- George MacLeod of Scotland.
Wow... something we should constantly remind ourselves of, as "churchmen", and something worth thinking about in the context of The Passion Of The Christ.
BTW: Looking the above quote up on google gives a number of hits. Not all of them reference George MacLeod as the author... But here is an article that seems to support it rather well.
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