Resolve All Issues

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Core Value #8 Resolve All Issues

VISION-LOVE ALL PEOPLE, LEAD THEM INTO AN INTIMATE WALK WITH JESUS, IMPACT GENERATIONS THROUGH THEM. (LOVE, LEAD, IMPACT)

MISSION-TO BUILD A FAMILY CHURCH, AND A MINISTRY TRAINING CENTER

2 Corinthians 5:17–20 ESV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 cor 5::

We are new creations in Christ.

The new birth is the rebirth of the human spirit.

We were separated from God because of our sin.

But now we are reconciled to God our heavenly Father.

Now that we are reconciled, we are commission by God to reconcile people in our Jerusalem.

Acts 1:8 ESV
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

What is mean by “reconciliation?”

Reconciliation comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in allassō. The meaning common to this word group is “change” or “exchange.” Reconciliation involves a change in the relationship between God and man or man and man. It assumes there has been a breakdown in the relationship, but now there has been a change from a state of enmity and fragmentation to one of harmony and fellowship.

To “reconcile” or bring about “reconciliation” is to restore harmony or friendship between two entities formerly divided. In the biblical tradition, reconciliation denotes the fundamental fact of a restored relationship, either between human persons, among various elements in the cosmos, or between humans and God

This biblical idea assumes that relationships have indeed been broken, as the narrative of so poignantly relates. In that story, moreover, all relationships of human existence stand in need of reconciliation: relations between creatures and their Creator, gender relationships made hostile by the effects of sin, and the relationships between human creatures and the earth itself which have been marred as well by the sin of the garden.

Christ’s death and resurrection have redefined and restored all relationships in the “new creation” (); God, now, has become the perfect Reconciler.

Through Christ, God has restored all people to a right relationship with the divine Creator and has summoned every believer to cooperate in this “ministry of reconciliation” (). The whole cosmos now stands reconciled before God, invited into this reconciliation: “in Christ God was reconciling the world” (

Since we are reconciled to God, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. In fact, we are ministers of reconciliation in the marketplace.

2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

If we are reconciling men to God, we have the power to reconcile men to men.

The power to reconcile starts with ourselves.

Jesus calls this “peace-makers.”

Matthew 5:9 ESV
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

8. Resolve all issues- We address issues until they are resolved, and relationships restored.

8. Resolve all issues- We address issues until they are resolved,and relationship restored.

When a relationship is restored, the tension in gone and peace is established.

Romans 5:1 ESV
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Peace with God, empowers us to have peace with men/women.

Stories of Reconciliation

Jacob and Esau , & 33

Genesis 27:41 ESV
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Esau is going kill me and my entire family!

Genesis 32:6–7 ESV
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,

Jacob deals with the fear, and turns it to favor through prayer!

Genesis 32:9–12 ESV
And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”
Gen 32

Reconciliation starts with prayer!

Matthew 5:43–45 ESV
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Through prayer, we cleanse our hearts and release God to move in our behalf, and He does!

In the book “Forgiving Forward” Chap. 6, pg 95 Bill Hybels states “Reconciliation is the restoration of an estranged parts to a good relationship.”

God restored the relationship between Jacob and Esau, and he can do the same for you!

Prayer is the beginning of all reconciliation.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV
pray without ceasing,

Restoration of friendly relationships and of peace where before there had been hostility and alienation. Ordinarily it also includes the removal of the offense which caused the disruption of peace and harmony

Restoration of friendly relationships and of peace where before there had been hostility and alienation. Ordinarily it also includes the removal of the offense which caused the disruption of peace and harmony

[1] Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). Reconciliation. In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol. 2, p. 1823). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
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