Ambassadors

2 Corinthians 5:16-21(KJV)
16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

When is an ambassador not an ambassador? The answer is that he is always an ambassador. It doesn't matter where he is or what he is doing, he is always an ambassador. As an ambassador he represents always the country for which he is an ambassador. He may not be in the country he represents but he is the country as far as others are concerned.
My Question is this: Why does the church have such a hard time realizing that it is always the church? - we are representing the kingdom of God no matter where we are or what we are doing. We are in the world but not of it. Our lives are not compartmentalized, that is to say what we do is always directly related to who we are as Christians. We represent Christ in the church place, in the shower, at the work place or wherever we are. There is never a time when we seperate what we do from who we are.
You can't continue to do what the church folk have done for so many years by saying worship is one thing and our "jobs" are not connected etc. The church is weak in the world because of this compromising mentallity. We must either be all in or we are all out. Which is for you today?

Be all in Today
Pastor Kitner