What makes the Cross of Christ of none effect?
I. The making it identical with the crucifix, as though the Cross of Christ were nothing more than His crucifixion.
II. The exhibition of false doctrine and of speculation concerning the Cross of Christ.
III. The exhibition of the Cross of Christ without a personal recognition of its claim.
IV. The multiplication and complication of the requirements of the Cross of Christ.
V. Lack of faith in the power of the Cross.
VI. The use of the Cross for objects foreign to itself.
S. Martin, Westminster Chapel Sermons,1st series, p. 198.
References: 1 Corinthians 1:17. J. Oswald Dykes, Sermons,p. 20. 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:18. A. J. Parry, Phases of Truth,p. 104.