The cross or glory?

Check out Dan Ortlund's perfect critique of one problem with Christianity's attempt to break into Hollywood production.

Carson and Moo explain:

Because in 1 and 2 Corinthians Paul passionately develops a theology of the cross that shapes Christian ethics, Christian priorities, and Christian attitudes, the apostle directly confronts all approaches to Christianity that happily seek to integrate a generally orthodox confession with pagan values of self-promotion.  The cross not only justifies, it teaches us how to live and die, how to lead and follow, how to love and serve.  These two letters therefore speak volumes to contemporary Western Christianity, which often prides itself in its orthodoxy but is far more comfortable with twenty-first-century secularism than it has any right to be.

-Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 450-451

Also, see theology of the cross vs. theology of glory.  

All of which raises the question: to what extent is this blog an integration of "orthodox confession with pagan values of self-promotion"?  Yikes.