Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
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Col 2:6-7
Begging the Lord
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
The NKJV translates Paul’s writing here with the word “implore”. It makes it sound a bit fancier a bit less humiliating. But in fact what Paul is talking about is nothing less humiliating than straight out begging!
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PTC Elevator Speech
An elevator speech is the speech you would give in an
elevator. It is what you would tell
someone whom you have never met before and may never see again…twenty seconds
to share what is most important to you – and to them. Members of Peace Thru Christ shared their
thoughts on what should go into the Peace Thru Christ elevator speech. Those thoughts were put together into the
following:What church
do you attend? I attend Peace Thru
Christ Lutheran Church. We preach the Gospel that Jesus died on the cross to
take away our sins. We are saved by
grace (God’s undeserved love) thru faith, not by anything we can do to earn
salvation. We learn this from the Bible,
which we know and teach is the inspired Word of God. Visitors are always
welcome. We have a K-8 School. Our
church is easy to find. We are in
Middleton on the corner of Hwy M and West Point Road.