CT061 - Jesus Makes Us New

This Friday Lord's Supper meditation steps away from the weekday walk through Matthew to consider one word at the heart of what the table proclaims: reconciliation. Paul writes to a church he's had hard conversations with and reminds them what they are in Christ — a new creation, reconciled to God, their trespasses no longer counted against them. We trace that word through the passage, holding together God's complete initiative and our active response, pausing at the great exchange that made "not counting" possible, and ending where Paul ends: as ambassadors carrying the message outward. The table gathers us around what God has done, and sends us out with a plea for others — "Be reconciled to God."