What Does it Look Like to Be an Ambassador for Christ?
We’ve all heard of ambassadors. It is normative for each country to have an ambassador (an accredited diplomat) who goes and represents their country to and in other nations. According to Embassy Worldwide , for example, there are “about 168 Foreign Embassies and 732 Consulates placed in the territory of the United States. The United States itself in total counts near 163 Embassies and 93 Consulates spread all over the world.” What do these ambassadors do? For the most part, the ambassador helps promote peace between his country and that in which he or she is placed. As Christians—first and foremost in relation to what the world sees—we are to be ambassadors for Christ. We are people called by God to represent Him to a lost and dying (secular) world, and as we become more and more like Jesus ( 2 Corinthians 3:18 ), the world will see His character in and through us. “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to ...
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