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cannot keep it unto ourselves. We now have an

obligation to share it. When someone has been given
much, much will be required in return; and when
someone has been entrusted with much, even more will

be required Luke 12:48b.

If you know HIM, you have HIM. If you have HIM, you
are privileged to share Him.

– Pastor Rusty Nelson, The Rock Family Worship Center

We are all called to be ministers of reconciliation. 2
Corinthians 5:17-21 is clear. Therefore, if anyone is in
CHRIST, the new creation has come: The old has gone,

the new is here! 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 people’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.

Let us unpack this charge in order to better grasp the

scope of this ministry and our responsibilities as
Ministers of Reconciliation.

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