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AMBASSADORS

David Egner's regular activities include spending time teaching prison inmates about Jesus through Bible study classes. David says one day when he arrived at the checkpoint to enter the prison, he was told that his identification card had been misplaced.

In order to get in and teach his classes, the guard had to fill out a temporary permission slip for David. After he got inside, David glanced at the piece of paper and laughed. In the space provided to indicate who he was representing, the guard had written, "God."

Later, as he drove home, David thought about the permission slip more seriously. Although the guard may have had a sense of humor, she was right. Even though David had officially been representing a prison ministry, he was really representing God.

All believers in Jesus represent God wherever they are, and whatever they do. They are his ambassadors.

2 Corinthians 5:20 "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God."

—http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/odb, Our Daily Bread, December 10, 2001, Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.