2 Corinthians 6:1-3
1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3 We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.
1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3 We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.
We who are in Christ labor in the gospel together. Because we co-labor for the good news of the words of life to the salvation God works by that word and gift of faith, we must soberly and actively follow our calling as His ambassadors. He tells us that now is the right time for the message to he told and heard, so we who bring that must also be inoffensive in our own actions and way we live. Certainly the gospel itself is offensive to many, the ones refusing to admit they are hopeless sinners in God’s justly angry hands. The message that we cannot do anything to placate His judgment and justice which we all rightly deserve is not only unpopular, it is offensive to our pride. Yet we are to be holy as He is and so make the effort to not be offensive in anything ourselves.
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