Our pastor is gone for the week, so we had a guest speaker today. He was good. He spoke on 2 Cor. 5. One thing he said struck me: "If we don't know God, how can we represent Him?"
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Cor. 5:17-21
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Reconciliation is such an amazing thing. It goes so far beyond forgiveness. It makes me think of the prodigal son, and how all he was hoping for (and what he knew was more than he deserved) was to be given the position of servant. But he was restored to all the rights of a son. How incredible is that?!?!?!
Oh, and off topic - you have to come up with your book list before the post gets bumped off the page.
whose rule is that?
It's just a given. You're the one who brought up the topic anyways - you can't just quietly let it slip into oblivion and think you're off the hook.
maybe i was just saying that it's an impossible question
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