The apostle Paul boldly went on record when he said, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel" (Romans 1:16). Paul had a life-changing encounter with Jesus that shook his world, transformed his outlook, and set him on a course to live for Jesus Christ alone.

In 2 Corinthians Paul talks about what it means to be reconciled to Jesus, and about the exciting life of being a communicator of God’s reconciliation. So profoundly changed by the grace of God are we that for the rest of our lives we get to be “Ambassadors for Christ” (2 Cor. 5:20). How about that? Who would have thought it? But there you go; we get to be a part of the story of God in the world.

Jesus saved us and now we get the privilege of telling others about this new and exciting way of life and how they can know Jesus, too. Did you know that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,” and that He did this “not counting their trespasses against them” (2 Cor. 5:19)? Now, we get to continue that story and that life.

We don’t count people’s sins against them. We love them. We are ambassadors to them. We show folks how much God loves them in their sins and how He can change their lives, so much so that they can walk away from the destructive nature of sin, and come to the abundant life of God in Christ.

The Gospel is Good News, and we are on the front line living it out. The love of Jesus controls us and we know that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away behold, new things have come (2 Cor. 5:17). And, we’re getting the word out.