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August 29, 2021

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Current Sermon Series: God’s Plan - You were created on purpose and for a purpose.

Current Sermon Title: How To Change Houston

Today’s Speaker: Steve Bezner

From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. —2 Corinthians 5:16-21

1. Change our perspective. (vv. 16-19)

2. Change our process. (vv. 18-20)

Ministry of reconciliation vs. the message of reconciliation.

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Find wives for yourselves, and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. Pursue the well-being of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it thrives, you will thrive.” —Jeremiah 29:4-7

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a. Four videos
b. Downloadable workbook
c. Ability to sign up for in-person coaching/classes

The key to this is our being an “ambassador.”

3. Change our plea. (vv. 20-21)