Be all you can be in 2023
Philippians 4:13 NIV I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
The Goal: Aim to please Him
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NIV 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
- 1 Peter 1:23 NIV For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
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, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Remember: The honor of Christ and his church is in his ambassadors’ hands. He expects them to represent him well. People will think more highly or less highly of Christ and his church based on the effectiveness of his ambassadors’ service.