Ambassadors, Not Diplomats

In this busy election season, with so many competing viewpoints and so much clamor, and with all the needs of the world pressing upon us, it’s easy for the church to lose its way. Here is a wonderful reminder from Hugh Thomson Kerr (HT Of First Importance):

We are not sent to preach sociology but salvation; not economics but evangelism; not reform but redemption; not culture but conversion; not progress but pardon; not a new social order but a new birth; not revolution but regeneration; not renovation but revival; not resuscitation but resurrection; not a new organization but a new creation; not democracy but the gospel; not civilization but Christ; we are ambassadors, not diplomats.