The Complexity of the Atonement

I love exploring the depth and complexity but we don't need to necessarily understand all that for it to be efficacious in our life. A long time ago I heard a very wise teacher John Wenham who was in Oxford when I was not a graduate gave a talk on the atonement. He rattled through all these different theories and laid it out brilliantly, said somebody said how much of this to somebody have to know in order to be a Christian? And he smiled and said very little something about the love of God reaching out in Jesus and his death and embracing you so that's enough to get started. It may not be enough to keep you going but it's certainly enough to get Started.