House Church Talk - Some verses to think about...

[Robert L. Moseley]

Scott, what version of the Scripture did you use for this post???  I am not
familiar with it at all!

Bob Moseley, from the hills of Texas



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Dowlen" <scottdowlen at cox.net>
To: "'House Church Talk'" <House Church Talk  at housechurch.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: House Church Talk -  Some verses to think about...


>
> I especially like the part that says "His love has the first and last word
> in everything we do."
>
> Here is the whole passage:
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> 2 Corinthians 5:10-21 MSG
> (10)  Sooner or later we'll all have to face God, regardless of our
> conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what's coming to us as a
> result of our actions, either good or bad.
> (11)  That keeps us vigilant, you can be sure. It's no light thing to know
> that we'll all one day stand in that place of Judgment. That's why we work
> urgently with everyone we meet to get them ready to face God. God alone
> knows how well we do this, but I hope you realize how much and deeply we
> care.
> (12)  We're not saying this to make ourselves look good to you. We just
> thought it would make you feel good, proud even, that we're on your side
and
> not just nice to your face as so many people are.
> (13)  If I acted crazy, I did it for God; if I acted overly serious, I did
> it for you.
> (14)  Christ's love has moved me to such extremes. His love has the first
> and last word in everything we do. Our firm decision is to work from this
> focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same
> boat.
> (15)  He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be
> included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people
> ever lived on their own.
> (16)  Because of this decision we don't evaluate people by what they have
or
> how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all
wrong,
> as you know. We certainly don't look at him that way anymore.
> (17)  Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the
> Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new
life
> burgeons! Look at it!
> (18)  All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us
> and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other.
> (19)  God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving
the
> world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the
> task of telling everyone what he is doing.
> (20)  We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and
women
> to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right
> between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with
> God; he's already a friend with you.
> (21)  How? you say. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did
> anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.
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