Ambassadors for CHRIST ( JESUS' mentoring of the disciples.) 5-15-18 ---Mike Head

JESUS'S Approach to Create Ambassadors

• Create a small group to train.
• Invest in even smaller groups that will lead the others
• (ex.  Seminary in Belize,  Church built in non-churched area)

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I.   Bear Witness

2 Corinthians 5:17-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
¹⁹ To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
²⁰ Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

"I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's....."  
I Peter 5:1-2

Matthew 10:19-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
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II.  Authority

Matthew 10:1 King James Version (KJV)

10 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Ephesians 6:19 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

²⁰ For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
 

Acts 4:13 King James Version (KJV)

¹³ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
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III.  Ambassadors Go

Where are ambassadors needed?   everywhere

Matthew 10:5 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ These twelve JESUS sent forth.....

Luke 10:1-3 King James Version (KJV)

10 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

² Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
³ Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Luke 10:16 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁶ He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

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IV.  The "Work":  Ambassadors represent    someone else, not themselves

Our America culture bring great problem solving skills and a great "can do" attitude
but we can sometimes fall into the trap of placing the project completion Over the people we came to serve.

The object is NOT always the project as much as WHO did we Touch while working on it.