This article is the third in a series about the Ministry of Reconciliation. You can find the others here.

And finally, a part of spreading the Gospel is POINT #3 - v16-17 Acknowledge Spiritual Realities. In other words, as we saw in the previous article on this, there’s no longer any distinctions (age, gender, ethnicity…) that we as Christians use to evaluate people, only looking to the spiritual reality of their eternal destinies.

This article is the second in a series about the Ministry of Reconciliation. You can find the others here.

We’ll pull the points directly out of the passage here. POINT #1 - We persuade others v11-13. This point comes after Paul’s acknowledgment of the fear of the Lord in regards to His infinite power and the impending judgement for all.

The last two weeks of July, I had the opportunity to preach the Gospel, specifically on a topic I’ve been wanting to dive more into, reconciliation. There are several passages in the New Testament that draw out this aspect of the Gospel, but one in particular that stands out to me is in 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2, where Paul lays out what he calls the Ministry of Reconciliation. In the coming weeks I’ll share my writing from my studying on this topic that I used in my sermons.

In this first post I will share how I laid out the phrases of the passage selection and highlighted patterns. Doing this allows you to find the main points and repeated themes or words of importance. This first post will also take a step back into 2 Cor. 5:10 as the setup for the rest of the section, as well as looking at a brief overview of the Gospel doctrine of reconciliation, which will be covered much more in depth in a future post.