June 21, 2026 - Change

Scripture Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21

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"a community of believers being transformed by the love of Jesus"

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Are you compelled and convinced?
14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced

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This includes good pain
  one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

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Stand in assent

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Belief adjusts eyesight
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

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Belief adjusts expectation:
So hopeful you can taste it!
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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Belief adjusts our job-focus

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ...

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Who do you/we need to be reconciled with?

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Changed to bring Change
 And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.

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Back to the basics, the start
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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How do we know we believe?
Relationships are being renewed in and around us.