So then, from this point on we won’t recognize people by human standards. Even though we used to know Christ by human standards, that isn't how we know him now. So then, if anyone is in Christ, that person is part of the new creation. The old things have gone away, and look, new things have arrived!
All of these new things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and who gave us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ, by not counting people’s sins against them. He has trusted us with this message of reconciliation.
So we are ambassadors who represent Christ. God is negotiating with you through us. We beg you as Christ’s representatives, "Be reconciled to God!" God caused the one who didn’t know sin to be sin for our sake so that through him we could become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Common English Bible
We beg you as Christ’s representatives, "Be reconciled to God!" The One who has the right to be angry, condescend to beg through us, "Be reconciled to God!". We have found the Bread of Life and we are now telling you where to get it.
We are all mere beggars showing other beggars where to find bread.
Martin Luther
Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.
D.T. NILES, New York Times, May 11, 1986
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35 KJV)
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