We Are Guilty

"[W]e ourselves are also guilty [of Christ’s crucifixion]. If we were in [the Jews] place, we would have done what they did. Indeed, we *have* done it. For whenever we turn away from Christ [and sin], we 'are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace' (Heb. 6:6). We too sacrifice Jesus to our greed like Judas, to our envy like the priests, to our ambition like Pilate…[T]here is blood on our hands. Before we can begin to see the cross as something done *for* us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done *by* us (leading us to repentance)." - John R. W. Stott from The Cross of Christ