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[IMAGE] “Zoom Boom” because folks have had to look at themselves on video calls a lot more this past year.
It’s one thing to look in the mirror at a fairly static image but altogether something else when you are faced with your own moving image through the uncaring eye of the camera lens.
Feels like every flaw and blemish is highlighted, etc.
Even if no one else is judging, we judge ourselves.
What we think of ourselves and our concerns about what other people think of us drive our behaviors.
We’ll change our wardrobe, hide our smile, etc.
Also true for our personal habits, behaviors.
We worry a lot about what people think even when we don’t realize it.
The overlap in our walk with Christ is affected as well.
We’re concerned about being considered bigoted, judgmental, silly, unserious or even overzealous because of our faith.
In Paul’s 2nd letter to the Corinthians he writes a lot about his ministry and how he is perceived by others.
His defense and explanation of the Christian life needs to be understood and adopted by all believers.
Whose Opinion Matters?
Who has the most influence in your life?
It’s not that others should never have any influence, but we’re very likely to let another person’s perspective or opinions direct us more than Christ.
What’s the “Bottom Line?”
“Controls = “compels, guides, holds us steady, urges us on.”
A big part of the life/death metaphor is to drive home the point that dead people aren’t concerned with anyone else’s opinion.
Living for Christ means a new way of perceiving ourselves.
In contrast to living for the way others see us.
Our “New Look”
We have a “new look” that isn’t based on any external factor.
Old/New dichotomy.
A fresh start.
Two parts to this “new look.”
First, we have a fresh perspective on other people.
We aren’t limited by their gender, ethnicity, economic status, social ranking, etc. They’re people who need a new life just like we did/do.
Second, every shortcoming, sin, guilt or shame we have ever experienced is gone.
That’s all part of the old.
Our New Purpose
2 Corinthians 5:18–21 (NLT)
18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ.
And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.
And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us.
We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Ambassadors completely represent.
They fully understand who they are and whom they represent.
They seek to connect with those to whom they have been sent.
How the ambassador looks, sounds, acts, reacts must consistently reflect the one who sent them.
Christ’s ambassadors are less concerned with outward appearances and much more with authenticity.
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