Agents of Reconciliation | Mobilized for Mission - Week 4

Big Idea: You have been reconciled; now you are responsible.  We must become new creations in order to experience and offer reconciliation. -Individually (2 Cor 5:17). “I once was ______. I met Jesus. Now I am ______. -Cosmos (2 Cor 5:18-19). Church. Humanity. Creation.  Where have you felt the freedom and joy of being a new creation in Jesus? Where have you struggled to be the new creation that you already are? Consider asking the same questions concerning your family, church, workplace, country, etc…  We (as individuals and as a Church) are Jesus’ ambassadors.  -An ambassador is a direct representative of the king or executive. Ambassadors are meant to bring about conversation, friendship, goodwill; form and maintain alliances. -Christ-followers are to be Jesus’ representatives here on Earth.  Do people experience the real Jesus through your words and actions? Where have you excelled as an ambassador for Christ? Where have you struggled?  “For we are His (God’s) workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)  How has God prepared you for the good works He is doing through you now? How might He have prepared you through the good and hard seasons of your life to do good works in the future?  Next Steps: 1. Where can you begin to bring about God’s reconciliation and human flourishing in your immediate context? 2. Where are you called to assist in bringing God’s reconciliation and human flourishing to the world?