“The Heart of a Pioneer” (Part 2)

2 Corinthians 5:10-21

This week we are considering the heart of a pioneer—to be willing to do the hard work of blazing the trail of ministry. To do the dangerous work of walking point. To do the challenging work of leading the way. This was the heart of the apostle Paul—church planter and missionary. Monday we saw that a pioneer must be serious. Today we see …

A Pioneer Must Be Sensitive (vv.14, 18-19)

Sensitive to the Heart of Christ (v.14)

“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;”

Sensitive to the need for Reconciliation (vv.18-19)

“Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”

Sensitive to the World Today (1 Col. 9:22)-

“to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

A commitment to these sensitivities will advance our message and mission. Tomorrow we will close our thinking on having the heart of a pioneer…