Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ESVUK

Here is the essence of the message to be delivered by the ambassador for Christ: the ”appeal” made by God ”through” this person. It is urgent.

”We implore you…” This matters. It is serious business. Listen to this…please!

Unless you become reconciled to God through faith in Christ, you will remain estranged from God. To be without God forever is the essence of hell. When you consider the price God has paid to bring you back (which we will next time) it is no light matter to reject His offer.

I fear that in the church today we are losing a sense of urgency about evangelism. Could this be that because we are becoming shaky in our beliefs about what the Bible has to say about the state of lost people?

“It is clear you don’t like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.” Dwight L. Moody