{"id":1241,"date":"2022-11-20T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2022-11-24T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:35:35","slug":"sermon20221120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20221120\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mission of Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2022\">\n<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy<br \/>\nScripture: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21<br \/>\nSpeaker: Rev. George Yip<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2022_1120_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>2 Corinthians 5:18-21<\/strong><\/u><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Luke-10-1\"><span id=\"en-NIV-28896\" class=\"text 2Cor-5-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>All this is from God,\u00a0who reconciled us to himself through Christ\u00a0and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28897\" class=\"text 2Cor-5-19\"><sup class=\"versenum\">19\u00a0<\/sup>that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people\u2019s sins against them.\u00a0And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28898\" class=\"text 2Cor-5-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>We are therefore Christ\u2019s ambassadors,\u00a0as though God were making his appeal through us.\u00a0We implore you on Christ\u2019s behalf: Be reconciled to God.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NIV-28899\" class=\"text 2Cor-5-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>God made him who had no sin\u00a0to be sin<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;\" data-fn=\"#fen-NIV-28899b\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NIV-28899b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%205&amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-28899b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 Church Theme: Advancing God\u2019s Kingdom in the New Normalcy Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 Speaker: Rev. George Yip 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 18\u00a0All this is from God,\u00a0who reconciled us to himself through Christ\u00a0and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:\u00a019\u00a0that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people\u2019s sins against them.\u00a0And he has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20221120\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mission of Reconciliation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-sermon","category-outside-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}