Love Wins by Rob Bell

Author:Rob Bell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-04-13T16:12:27.998148+00:00

Chapter 5

Dying to Live

Somewhere around 2005 Eminem dropped out of sight. No albums, no tours—not much was heard from him. Word spread that he’d been battling a drug addiction, and many wondered if he’d ever come back. And then in the summer of 2010, he announced that he’d be doing a concert in his hometown of Detroit. A comeback, if there ever was one.

I remember standing there among forty thousand people in that baseball stadium when he first took the stage and his image was projected onto the massive screens on the sides of the stage. It was then that I noticed something fascinating.

Eminem was wearing a cross around his neck.

Now, we see crosses all the time,

that’s nothing new.

They’re around somebody’s neck,

on a church building,

on a sign at a sporting event.

It’s an icon,

a sign,

a sculpture,

it’s on someone’s arm as a tattoo—

the cross is everywhere.

Companies and institutions spend millions of dollars to come up with logos that we will notice, remember, and associate with certain products, people, or ideas. But this one, hundreds of years after its inception, this simple icon with its two intersecting sticks, has endured in a way very few images ever have.

But this ubiquity is dangerous, because it can inoculate. Familiarity can lead to unfamiliarity. We see something so much that we assume we know and understand what it is.

“Jesus died on the cross for your sins.”

Yes, we know. We’ve seen that homemade billboard by the side of the road countless times.

Anything else?

Yes, there is.

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