Is marriage and family counseling the same as preaching the cross?
No. Marriage and family counseling, which aims to bring husbands and wives into a closer relationship, is good as far as it goes, but it is not the preaching of the cross. When the cross is preached, all these other things fall into place.
Les explains that while marriage and family counseling tries to spend all its time bringing husbands and wives into a better and closer relationship, that is good as far as it goes, but it is not the preaching of the cross. He stresses that when you preach the cross, all these other things fall in place. He then turns to verse 19, where it is written that God will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent, contrasting the cross with human wisdom.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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What is the preaching of the cross?
The preaching of the cross is that Christ died, was buried, and rose from the dead.