Agents of Reconciliation Back in 1968, we realized that one does not gradually drift out of racism into reconciliation. It only happens with positive, proactive intentionality—beginning with a radical change of heart. It can’t be overstated enough that racism is not a skin problem, but a sin problem! When your heart changes, your will can resolve to change. Then and only then will we have the desire and will to be the ministers of reconciliation that God called us to as His disciples. Both inside and outside God’s embassy called the Church, we are to be Christ’s ambassadors. It is through us that God is making His appeal: “Be reconciled to God” so that we can be reconciled to man (2 Corinthians 5:20). When we cease that ministry of reconciliation, we are guilty of receiving “God’s grace in vain” (2 Corinthians 6:1). That means that we are liv-
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