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Every Believer's Ministry Is Reconciliation - Bluffton Service
What does it mean to carry the title of ambassador? Most of us would never apply that word to ourselves, yet that is exactly what Scripture declares over every believer. In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul makes it unmistakably clear that the ministry of reconciliation has been placed in our hands, not just in the hands of preachers or evangelists, but in all of us. God is making his appeal to the world through us. That is a staggering thought. The same passage reminds us of what theologians call the great exchange, the moment when the sinless Christ took on the weight of all human sin so that we could be made right with God. When that reality settles into our hearts, it does not just fill us with gratitude, it compels us outward. We begin to see the people around us, coworkers, neighbors, family members, the stranger at the next table, through the lens of a God who already loves them and has already made a way for them. The question the message presses us to sit with is honest and a little uncomfortable: if around 95 percent of people who call themselves Christians have never led a single person toward faith, where does that leave us? Not condemned, but challenged. Because the good news is genuinely good, and good news was never meant to be kept quiet.