Ambassadors for Christ

2 Corinthians 5:16-21
16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ
merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!17 This means that anyone who
belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has
given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of
reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak
for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the
offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.