ECCE

      The Gospel of salvation is for both the individual person and for the whole world. Jesus spoke to a ruler of the Jews named Nicodemus, and He told him of this truth about salvation: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God...Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit...And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (Jn. 3:1-16, excerpt).      Jesus spoke about how each person must be changed, or be born again by the Spirit of God, in order to enter into the kingdom of God, which is Spirit. Nicodemus pretended that he did not understand what Jesus was speaking about, but Jesus knew that he did.      In His discussion with Nicodemu...

      There are many examples of lives transformed by the Gospel. Those transformed lives went on to affect many other lives. Paul wrote: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature ( ktisis - thing created, creation, the act of founding, converted ): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Cor. 5:17). Through Christ, God has reconciled us to Himself, and in addition, has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and the word of reconciliation that reconciles others to God through Christ in the same manner. Paul calls us "ambassadors for Christ", beseeching others, "be ye reconciled to God." (v. 18-20). This reconciliation and new creature are the result of the Father's work through His Son, Jesus: "For he (God) hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (v. 21). We, as ambassadors of reconciliation, have the responsibility to tell ...