The cause of Christ suffers greatly today through what has rightly been termed a "dissected cross, a decapitated gospel. "Perhaps unconsciously we have settled down to an ordinary and defeated Christian life, a customary unholiness.<BR><BR>For L.E. Maxwell. the cross was everything. He wrote Born Crucified to "attempt in a small way to set forth, not as an exposition or theological statement, but in simple sermon and exhortation, the role of the Cross in the life of the believer." In doing so, Maxwell made clear the way to victory over sin and empowered service to God.<BR><BR>Maxwell's words come as strange comfort to our souls: "God's way of victory over sin is not through the suppression of sinful desires, nor through the eradication of the old nature, nor yet through the cleansing of inbred sin. God's way of victory is through crucifixion---deliverance is only through death."