Millions of others, however, have no idea what the cross of Christ really means. I've been greeted by young men and women at fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King, or Taco Bell. Oftentimes, you can see the symbol of the cross of Christ hanging around the necks of these young people. When you travel through a large city such as Milwaukee, St. Louis, or Chicago, you can often see beautiful crosses high in the sky on the top of towering church steeples. We see the cross repeatedly, sometimes several times a day.
Every symbol has a meaning.
The symbol of the skull and the crossbones means death. We have symbols on restroom doors. Without reading a word, people automatically know by seeing a symbol that one entrance is for men and the other is for women. However, when it comes to the cross of Jesus Christ, most people do not have a clue. Several decades after Jesus died on the cross, the apostle Paul, in a letter to the first Christians in Galatia, explained the fundamental meaning of the cross.