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Mission: Endure #4 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Every disciple of Christ is an ambassador for Christ.

01/02/2022 AM Service 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Pastor Mark Reed

01/02/2022 AM Service 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Pastor Mark Reed

Our best response in these difficult times is, Loving God. Loving People. Together. Today Pastor Steve shares how powerfully we can represent Jesus in our world today. We have hope, we can make a difference and change our community for the glory of God.

Today we're going to look at two of the most common questions in the Christian faith… o How Can I Know I’m Saved [16-19, 21] o What Am I Responsible For [19-20]

Bishop Hannington

Dorrisville Baptist Church

When the world tells us that our identity comes from what we do, where we come from, and what we can achieve, we turn to the scriptures to see how Paul helps redefine our source of identity. Pastor Michael Petrila finished our series on Identity. After weeks of finding out where identity came from and how it was disrupted, we landed on finding out "where we find true identity now." Listen to the podcast now!

When the world tells us that our identity comes from what we do, where we come from, and what we can achieve, we turn to the scriptures to see how Paul helps redefine our source of identity. Pastor Michael Petrila finished our series on Identity. After weeks of finding out where identity came from and how it was disrupted, we landed on finding out "where we find true identity now." Listen to the podcast now!

Parkminster Presbyterian Church

How does the good news of the kingdom of God go from our minds and hearts to our lives? How does it break into the world to transform the world? It all begins with the hope of reconnection, to God and to those around us. In this week's sermon, we explore the gospel's power to reconnect.

We have journeyed now almost 20 days so we are halfway there with 20 days to go. We continue to remember Jesus’s journey. From his being led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit where for forty days he was tempted by the devil to all the way to the empty tomb at the end of our journey.

Those who have been reconciled to God are now ambassadors of that same reconciliation. The church is an embassy of the Kingdom of God.

"All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation..." 2 Corinthians 5 v18

Sermon in a Sentence: is there any “new” in you? Sermon Outline: Introduction An Old or New “New?” The Two Arrivals Living “New” for the Sake of the World Conclusion Question: What is a practical action God is asking you to take in response to the sermon?

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Farmstead Baptist

We exist to ignite a passion in every person to glorify and enjoy God everywhere and in everything.

We exist to ignite a passion in every person to glorify and enjoy God everywhere and in everything.

What would happen if we fully embraced the transformation that occurs when we are born again in the Spirit? So often we think of the salvation experience as just that -- deliverance from sin and taking our place as sons and daughters of the Most High. It's so much more than that, though. God wants us to share this love He has shown toward us, and we should be excited to share it. As we look into a new year, do you want to be excited for Jesus?

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Brad Sullivan 4 Lent, Year C March 6, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 The Parable of the Extravagantly Forgiving Father Everyone needs forgiveness. We need to give forgiveness, we need to receive forgiveness. We need the grace and healing that comes with forgiveness. That’s because we all have scars and wounds inflicted upon us over the course of our lives, and we are also all the cause of other peoples’ scars and wounds. As much as we need food, water, and air, we are starving and suffocating without forgiveness. Without forgiveness, our past wounds keep on hurting us over and over, and they keep us from living the life of God’s kingdom. Everyone needs forgiveness. That’s why God gives forgiveness so extravagantly. We call the parable which we heard today, “The Prodigal Son,” or the wasteful son. He spent his inheritance wastefully and extravagantly and then came back to his father, penniless and starving, begging for his father to let him work as one of his servants. The father ran out to him, having already forgiven him, and restored him, not as a servant, but as a son, and he threw a huge party in celebration that his son was back, essentially back from the dead. So, the title “the prodigal son” makes some sense, although, “the extravagantly forgiving father” might be a better title. Calling the story “the prodigal son,” however, ignores the other brother, the one who stayed with his dad, helped around the house, and then was indignant when his brother came home and was given a party. That, and the anger he had? Totally understandable. It wasn’t fair, he was basically saying, and he was right. It wasn’t fair. Of course he was angry, and forgiveness isn’t about being fair. Forgiveness is about what we need. Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote a book on forgiveness which came out of the process of healing and the choice of forgiveness after apartheid in South Africa. He begins the book with a story of a woman and her daughter whose husband and father had been tortured, beaten, stabbed, dismembered, and killed. They were speaking to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the murder of their husband and father during apartheid in South Africa. They ended by saying, “I would love to know who killed my father. We want to forgive them. We want to forgive, but we don’t know who to forgive.” The perpetrators of this crime didn’t deserve forgiveness, but they needed it, wherever they were. The mother and daughter, also needed forgiveness. They had a need to give forgiveness. That was their desire. Archbishop Tutu wrote about them in his book, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World. He wrote about the need we have to be forgiven and the need we have to forgive. He writes: To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. It is also a process that does not exclude hatred and anger. These emotions are all part of being human. You should never hate yourself for hating others who do terrible things: The depth of your love is shown by the extent of your anger. However, when I talk of forgiveness, I mean the belief that you can come out the other side a better person. A better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive, then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on, and you can even help the perpetrator to become a better person, too. The brother in Jesus’ parable had a need to forgive. After rumbling with his anger and resentment for a while, he needed to release those emotions and forgive his brother so that he was no longer consumed by the anger and resentment, so that he was no longer hurting himself. Forgiveness is the key to the parable Jesus told: Our need for forgiveness, our need both to give and to receive forgiveness. The parable really should be called the parable of the extravagantly forgiving father. Then the focus is not on how we mess up, but the focus is on who God is, our extravagantly forgiving Father. How beloved are we of God that he forgives us so extravagantly? All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, (1 Corinthians 5:18-20) God knows that we only hurt because we have been hurt. We only break others only because we have been broken. As Archbishop Tutu writes: People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition. Children do not dream of growing up to be rapists or murderers, and yet ever rapist and ever murderer was once a child…Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew. So, God has given us forgiveness and reconciliation to him, and then he has granted us to be his ambassadors that we might give forgiveness and reconciliation as extravagantly as he. Our ambassadorship is not easy, of course, because forgiveness is not easy. It was not easy for God to forgive and to reconcile the world to him. We hear time and again about God’s vengeance and his wrath. You can bet our sins anger God. Just as with our rumbling with our anger and resentment, God was angry at humanity for the harm we cause each other. Rather than exact vengeance on humanity, however, God took that anger and vengeance upon himself, becoming human, becoming Jesus, and suffering himself, suffering his own anger and vengeance on the cross. God’s forgiveness of us was not easy, but it was and is extravagantly given. The anger and resentment we feel when we have been hurt is, like God’s anger and resentment, understandable and justified. We need, however, to rumble with it and eventually to release it so that it no longer poisons us. Such is our need for forgiveness, both to give and receive forgiveness. And so we are ambassadors for Christ, constantly working to give and receive forgiveness, and constantly telling others of the extravagant forgiveness God has given us through Jesus, and of the healing that comes through forgiveness and reconciliation. Such healing is not easy, because forgiveness is not easy. We see in the cross of Jesus the difficulty of forgiveness, and whenever we forgive something in us has to die in order for that forgiveness and new life to happen. Forgiveness is not easy, but it is needed, for restoration, for resurrection, for healing and new life. And we are ambassadors of Christ in his extravagant gift of healing through forgiveness. So I leave us with this prayer from Archbishop Tutu, called “The Prayer Before the Prayer.” I want to be willing to forgive But I dare not ask for the will to forgive In case you give it to me And I am not yet ready I am not yet ready for my heart to soften I am not yet ready to be vulnerable again Not yet ready to see that there is humanity in my tormentor’s eyes Or that the one who hurt me may also have cried I am not yet ready for the journey I am not yet interested in the path I am at the prayer before the prayer of forgiveness Grant me the will to want to forgive Grant it to me not yet but soon. Can I even form the words Forgive me? Dare I even look? Do I dare to see the hurt I have caused? I can glimpse all the shattered pieces of that fragile thing That soul trying to rise on the broken wings of hope But only out of the corner of my eye I am afraid of it And if I am afraid to see How can I not be afraid to say Forgive me? Is there a place where we can meet? You and me The place in the middle The no man’s land Where we straddle the lines Where you are right And I am right too And both of us are wrong and wronged Can we meet there? And look for the place where the path begins The path that ends when we forgive. Amen.

Brad Sullivan 4 Lent, Year C March 6, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 The Parable of the Extravagantly Forgiving Father Everyone needs forgiveness. We need to give forgiveness, we need to receive forgiveness. We need the grace and healing that comes with forgiveness. That’s because we all have scars and wounds inflicted upon us over the course of our lives, and we are also all the cause of other peoples’ scars and wounds. As much as we need food, water, and air, we are starving and suffocating without forgiveness. Without forgiveness, our past wounds keep on hurting us over and over, and they keep us from living the life of God’s kingdom. Everyone needs forgiveness. That’s why God gives forgiveness so extravagantly. We call the parable which we heard today, “The Prodigal Son,” or the wasteful son. He spent his inheritance wastefully and extravagantly and then came back to his father, penniless and starving, begging for his father to let him work as one of his servants. The father ran out to him, having already forgiven him, and restored him, not as a servant, but as a son, and he threw a huge party in celebration that his son was back, essentially back from the dead. So, the title “the prodigal son” makes some sense, although, “the extravagantly forgiving father” might be a better title. Calling the story “the prodigal son,” however, ignores the other brother, the one who stayed with his dad, helped around the house, and then was indignant when his brother came home and was given a party. That, and the anger he had? Totally understandable. It wasn’t fair, he was basically saying, and he was right. It wasn’t fair. Of course he was angry, and forgiveness isn’t about being fair. Forgiveness is about what we need. Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote a book on forgiveness which came out of the process of healing and the choice of forgiveness after apartheid in South Africa. He begins the book with a story of a woman and her daughter whose husband and father had been tortured, beaten, stabbed, dismembered, and killed. They were speaking to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the murder of their husband and father during apartheid in South Africa. They ended by saying, “I would love to know who killed my father. We want to forgive them. We want to forgive, but we don’t know who to forgive.” The perpetrators of this crime didn’t deserve forgiveness, but they needed it, wherever they were. The mother and daughter, also needed forgiveness. They had a need to give forgiveness. That was their desire. Archbishop Tutu wrote about them in his book, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World. He wrote about the need we have to be forgiven and the need we have to forgive. He writes: To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. It is also a process that does not exclude hatred and anger. These emotions are all part of being human. You should never hate yourself for hating others who do terrible things: The depth of your love is shown by the extent of your anger. However, when I talk of forgiveness, I mean the belief that you can come out the other side a better person. A better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive, then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on, and you can even help the perpetrator to become a better person, too. The brother in Jesus’ parable had a need to forgive. After rumbling with his anger and resentment for a while, he needed to release those emotions and forgive his brother so that he was no longer consumed by the anger and resentment, so that he was no longer hurting himself. Forgiveness is the key to the parable Jesus told: Our need for forgiveness, our need both to give and to receive forgiveness. The parable really should be called the parable of the extravagantly forgiving father. Then the focus is not on how we mess up, but the focus is on who God is, our extravagantly forgiving Father. How beloved are we of God that he forgives us so extravagantly? All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, (1 Corinthians 5:18-20) God knows that we only hurt because we have been hurt. We only break others only because we have been broken. As Archbishop Tutu writes: People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition. Children do not dream of growing up to be rapists or murderers, and yet ever rapist and ever murderer was once a child…Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew. So, God has given us forgiveness and reconciliation to him, and then he has granted us to be his ambassadors that we might give forgiveness and reconciliation as extravagantly as he. Our ambassadorship is not easy, of course, because forgiveness is not easy. It was not easy for God to forgive and to reconcile the world to him. We hear time and again about God’s vengeance and his wrath. You can bet our sins anger God. Just as with our rumbling with our anger and resentment, God was angry at humanity for the harm we cause each other. Rather than exact vengeance on humanity, however, God took that anger and vengeance upon himself, becoming human, becoming Jesus, and suffering himself, suffering his own anger and vengeance on the cross. God’s forgiveness of us was not easy, but it was and is extravagantly given. The anger and resentment we feel when we have been hurt is, like God’s anger and resentment, understandable and justified. We need, however, to rumble with it and eventually to release it so that it no longer poisons us. Such is our need for forgiveness, both to give and receive forgiveness. And so we are ambassadors for Christ, constantly working to give and receive forgiveness, and constantly telling others of the extravagant forgiveness God has given us through Jesus, and of the healing that comes through forgiveness and reconciliation. Such healing is not easy, because forgiveness is not easy. We see in the cross of Jesus the difficulty of forgiveness, and whenever we forgive something in us has to die in order for that forgiveness and new life to happen. Forgiveness is not easy, but it is needed, for restoration, for resurrection, for healing and new life. And we are ambassadors of Christ in his extravagant gift of healing through forgiveness. So I leave us with this prayer from Archbishop Tutu, called “The Prayer Before the Prayer.” I want to be willing to forgive But I dare not ask for the will to forgive In case you give it to me And I am not yet ready I am not yet ready for my heart to soften I am not yet ready to be vulnerable again Not yet ready to see that there is humanity in my tormentor’s eyes Or that the one who hurt me may also have cried I am not yet ready for the journey I am not yet interested in the path I am at the prayer before the prayer of forgiveness Grant me the will to want to forgive Grant it to me not yet but soon. Can I even form the words Forgive me? Dare I even look? Do I dare to see the hurt I have caused? I can glimpse all the shattered pieces of that fragile thing That soul trying to rise on the broken wings of hope But only out of the corner of my eye I am afraid of it And if I am afraid to see How can I not be afraid to say Forgive me? Is there a place where we can meet? You and me The place in the middle The no man’s land Where we straddle the lines Where you are right And I am right too And both of us are wrong and wronged Can we meet there? And look for the place where the path begins The path that ends when we forgive. Amen.

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The gospel is what begins the Christian life, but we cannot leave it there. The gospel does more than begin life with God. The gospel changes everything, everyday for the rest of our lives. It is the lens by which we will view life and people.

Mission Church of the Nazarene

Pastor John Dickerson shares a message from 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.

Pastor John Dickerson shares a message from 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.

God is a master Storyteller and He wants to create a story with your life. Your story is the result of God’s love for you. God Can Change How Your Story Ends. The person you were in the past does not dictate your story. This is the Sunday Worship Experience from LifeQuest Community Church in Hilton, NY on Sunday January 25th. The message is by Pastor Jamey Hinman. It is the 4th message in our Discover Your Story Series. Feel free to check us out online at www.lifequest.cc and on Facebook.

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Resources for a life of following Jesus every day, and everywhere, with everyone

Crosspoint Community Church