Today's Devotion: 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. (The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1996, c1984, S. 2 Co 5:20)

As Paul talked to the Church in Corinth, a church that was deeply divided by doctrinal disputes, the use of spiritual gifts, and rampant immorality, so Paul talks to the Church today, still divided by serious issues.

Today's Comments: So, what's new? The church today is still plagued by the same divisions that it was then, in Paul's time, perhaps even more so. Rather than looking for the things that unite us (the ministry of Jesus Christ), we focus on things that divide us--- doctrinal issues that may not be that important, at all. As ambassadors of Christ, we much put aside those things that divide us as men and preach those things that unite us in Christ--- the Gospel.