PASSION

PASSION – (1) A term used to describe the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. (2) Holy Week is often called Passion Week, describing Christ’s struggle and suffering in Jerusalem. (3) Passions are human appetites or urges – such as hunger, the desire for pleasure and sexual drives – which become a source of sin when not controlled or directed by submission to the will of God ^{(Rom. 1:26; 7:5; Gal. 5:24; Col. 3:5).}