title: To the Cross: Proclaiming the Gospel from the Upper Room to Calvary
author:  Christopher J. H. Wright 
description: Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is international ministries director of the Langham Partnership, providing literature, scholarships, and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel, <em>The Mission of God</em>, <em>Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit</em>, <em>Old Testament Ethics for the People of God</em>, and <em>Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament.</em> An ordained priest in the Church of England, Chris spent five years teaching the Old Testament at Union Biblical Seminary in India, and thirteen years as academic dean and then principal of All Nations Christian College, an international training center for cross-cultural mission in England. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005-2011 and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010.
zlib_text: They Met at Calvary
  Were You There...?
  W. E. Sangster M.A., Ph.D.
  THE EPWORTH PRESS
  (FRANK H. CUMBERS)
  25-35 City Road, London, E.C.1
  Published in 1956
  Reprinted 1956
  To SISTER LILLIE SWEET
  Wesley Deaconess
  Who lives beneath the Cross
  Preface
  MOST of the commerce of earth and heaven begins at Calvary. There are deep reasons why that must be
  so. Any book, however unpretentious, which draws people to the sacred hill, and constrains them to
  think reverently on the solemn events which culminated there, will have its usefulness.
  I do not claim for this book that it says anything new. I delight in the thought that it is all old, as old as
  the Gospels. Indeed, I have been especially careful to ignore the traditions and legends which cluster
  around the men and women who had a part in the death of Christ, and to deal only with things set down
  in the Scriptures and what (as it seems to me) can be honestly inferred from them.
  Even so, not everyone will agree with what I have said. I do not expect