Thoughts on changing the world

I'm doing some studying for a future sermon on Mark 10:32-45 and in my notes as I was surveying the text I wrote the following words which strike me as poignant in this season of elections in the USA with both parties promising that they have the best way forward.

At least I thought they were poignant.

The cross challenges all earthly kingdoms, all ideologies, all Utopian ideals, all best intentions, and shows them for what they really are – nothing. Only God was capable of doing what was necessary to set the world right. The cross was not only the best plan for the salvation of humanity, it was the only plan.

Read the passage and tell me what you think.

Chris