RECONCILIATION: Our Ministry

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After Adam and Eve sinned and disobeyed God, they were estranged from Him and so was the entire human race after them, but God so loved us and sent Jesus His Only Begotten Son who lived a perfect sinless life, was crucified, died on the cross and rose again from the dead to redeem us and reconcile us to God. 

Through Christ and through faith in Him alone, we are restored into perfect fellowship with the Father. He was made sin so that we might become the righteousness of God when we believe in Him, we have passed from death to life, we are no longer under condemnation, through Christ we are accepted by God without any reservations. Now that is Good News.

Today everyone who believes in Jesus as their Lord and Savior has been given this one ministry, the ministry of reconciliation. God has entrusted to us the opportunity, responsibility and privilege of being His vessels through which others may be reconciled to Him. 

Let us spread this Good News – God isn't mad at anybody today, He wants everyone to know how much He loves them and wants the best for them. The Father wants everyone to respond to His call, to respond to His invitation, to respond to the salvation He has already provided through Jesus. 

The Good Book puts it this way:

¹⁷ So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! ¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,^[c] not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. ²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  – 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NRSV

Wherever we find ourselves today, let us be aware of this fact: it could very well be that the Father has strategically placed us there as part of His plan to reach out in love to those around us and who knows... we probably might be their only chance of hearing the Good News of God’s love and grace that is through Christ. Let's not forget we are Christ's ambassadors...what an awesome privilege!

God has not called us to condemn or attack people, we have not been called to rail against the sins of our fellow men and women, no, no, no…we are to entreat people to be reconciled to God. We have been called to reveal the

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heart of God to others, how much He loves each one of us and how much wants to give us His life; we have been called to share God's love with others and to let them know God loves them and that He has made a way for them to be restored to Him as sons and daughters.  

Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, the entire human race (John 1:29), we now have the privilege and the responsibility of letting the whole world know that because of Jesus and what He did, sin that has separated man from God has been dealt with once and for all; God isn't mad at anyone anymore instead He is calling everyone to come to Him through faith in Jesus.

We are Christ's ambassadors, let's represent Him confidently today knowing that all of Heaven's resources are at our disposal as we share the Good News of God's love with others. Blessings!