From my inbox today…
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20 NASB-
Brothers and Sisters, you have been given a ministry of reconciliation…that is you are to be an ambassador for Christ imploring the lost souls Christ has sovereignly put in your life to be reconciled to God. You and I are to be proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and urging…pleading lost sinners to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to encourage you, in the strength of Christ by faith, to tell people about Jesus. Pray for God to open doors for you to share the Gospel. Do it out of love for Christ. Do it out of love for lost souls.
one Sunday morning, “I am going on a mission
to the heathen.”
Now he had not told his deacons about it, and
they looked puzzled at one another. Some of
the good people in the congregation began
to take out their pocket handkerchiefs, as they
thought their minister was going to leave them–
he was so useful and necessary to them that they
felt sad at the bare idea of loosing him.
“But” he added, “I shall not be out of town.”
So may you also go on a mission to the heathen
without going out of this huge town of yours!
You might almost preach to every sort of heathen
within the bounds of your town. If you want to
reach the heathen who have gone farthest into
sin, you need not certainly leave your town for
that. You shall find men and women rotten with
sin, and reeking in the nostrils of God with their
abominations. You may go about on a mission
to the heathen, and your railway ticket need
not cost you one penny!
- Charles Spurgeon,
