September 11th, 2022 - Caring Encoutners: Striving for Reconciliation
Scripture Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.
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September Series...Fall Series...Season Series...
Caring Encounters
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Real conversations and holding on
Small Group Project
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The Plain Project
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
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The Appropriate Pride Project
12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
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For God and for you
13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
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It is all about LOVE
14 For Christ’s love compels us
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Hard, but worth it
because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
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Affects how we see others
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
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When is this?
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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From God, through Christ, to each other
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
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19 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.
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Take it on the road
20 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.
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Go with the good news
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
