The Sense of Debt to Christ
“The death of Christ is the central thing in the New Testament and in the Christian religion as the New Testament understands it” (James Denney, The Death of Christ, ed. R.V.G. Tasker [London, The Tyndale Press], 156.
“The new life springs out of the sense of debt to Christ. The regenerating power of forgiveness depends upon its cost; it is the knowledge that we have been bought with a price which makes us cease to be our own, and live for Him who so dearly bought us” (Denney, The Death of Christ), 158.
Pastor John shares excerpts from a chapter entitled “The Death of Christ in Preaching and Theology” in Denney’s The Death of Christ (see reference above).