20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (CSB)
1. Contagious people are transparent.
11 Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (CSB)
14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:14 (CSB)
28 Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you going to persuade me to become a Christian so easily?” 29 “I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am—except for these chains.”
Acts 26:28-29 (CSB)
11 Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (CSB)
2. Contagious people are intense.
13 For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:13-14 (CSB)
31 Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I never stopped warning each one of you with tears.
Acts 20:31 (CSB)
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 (CSB)
3. Contagious people see potential.
16 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. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (CSB)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB)
4. Contagious people are on mission.
18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 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.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (CSB)
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
2 Corinthians 5:15 (CSB)
“We plead on Christ’s behalf—be reconciled to God.”