{"id":6688,"date":"2023-11-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:07:06","slug":"crosses-of-clarendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6688","title":{"rendered":"Crosses of Clarendon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I intend to write a few blogs from our recent experience at the National Staff Gathering of The Navigators, held in Irving, Texas. But I have to share something we saw on the way down and back. We drove so that we could visit relatives and friends, and I noticed for the first time that Clarendon, Texas, not far from Amarillo, on US 287, is home to over 50 crosses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top two pictures are mine. The bottom one is from a news report in 2014<\/a> describing “the ongoing cross controversy.” It’s more than 10 years later, and the crosses are still there so I guess the town has come to terms with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked a fellow at a gas station, and he said that about 10 years ago, a resident had a near-death experience and felt the need (or a “call”) to make these crosses available to those who wanted them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarendon resident Jim Griffin is putting up signs with different messages like the end is near and there are worse things coming than the 9\/11 tragedy. He says he’s putting up 10-foot-tall crosses as well to remind people of their faith and inform others about Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about 50 crosses around Clarendon on Highway 287, and in residents’ yards and businesses who ask for them.<\/em> Cross Controversy in Clarendon, September 12, 2012<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s interesting is that they’ve been up since 2012. I drove through Clarendon going to and coming from conferences in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and this is the first time I’ve seen them. And they are everywhere<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what the lesson is. Has anyone come to faith because of them? I don’t know. They certainly have generated controversy and mixed reactions. Many Christians love ’em and are encouraged; others hate ’em. One mother (from out-of-town) was afraid of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I guess that since the time of the Apostle Paul, nothing has changed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God…For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1.18 – 24, NKJV) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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