92 - A New Creation in Christ

2 Corinthians 4:1 - 6:2

In a somewhat disjointed letter to the church in Corinth, Paul talks about the transforming nature of faith in Christ, and of the suffering he has undergone while being an apostle of the gospel.

He likens himself to fragile clay jars, entrusted with the treasure of the light of Christ.  He looks forward to the day when he sheds his tent (mixed metaphor alert!) and goes to the eternal house in heaven.

Some of Paul's memorable rhetoric is found in this passage:

So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 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.

How do you exercise the ministry of reconciliation?