As Christians, we must constantly be asking ourselves how we view people. Because of our love for Christ and obedience to Him, we no longer look at people in worldly, surface level categories, but we give everyone the respect they deserve as image bearers of God. And it is in this respect and love that we are compelled to preach the full gospel to all people.

• If you embrace this, it will transform the way you view and interact with all kinds of people
• Don’t let who they are stop you from giving them what they so desperately need
• Honestly . . . how do you view people?

This life is a challenge for Christians; we face tremendous opposition as light in a dark world, but we also have a wonderful hope and guarantee: God has purposed all of our suffering in order to prepare us for the fullness of life, found in Christ. So our aim in this life is to please God by walking by faith in God’s Word, and by living courageously because of this hope.

We, fallen and redeemed sinners, have been given to incredible privilege to preach the message of life, and we must do so. We are called to humble living, and a life of suffering or even death in order that others may live by the gospel. And God has promised ultimate victory in this mission.

In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul makes a distinction between the Old Covenant and New Covenant, between the law and gospel. What is made clear is that the law cannot save anybody and was never intended to save anybody. All the law can do is point to our failure to keep it and earn is condemnation; it’s only because Jesus kept the whole law and was punished in our place that we can be made right before God. The law and the gospel are both necessary for our salvation.