I came across a piece this morning that was written by George MacLeod that struck me as very pertinent as we approach Election Day 2010. I found it in Charles Swindoll’s devotional book entitled Come Before Winter. The topic of the devotion is Relevance and Swindoll is talking about how Jesus was always relevant in His day. Jesus may have been hated and misunderstood, but He was never ignored, nor did He bore people. He was relevant and He still is.
Swindoll says, “It is we who have hauled the cross back out of sight. It is we who have left the impression that it belongs only in the cloistered halls of a seminary or beneath the soft shadow of stained glass and marble statues.” p. 321
Then Swindoll offers this from MacLeod on pp 321-322.
I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the market place 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 a town garbage heap; At a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek….And 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 about. And that is where Christ’s men ought to be, and what church people ought to be about.
Wow! Sounds kinda like today, huh? 
