The Touch of the Master’s Hand - June 26, 2020

by Pastor Chuck Ryan

The Touch of the Master’s Hand
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
Thesis: Mountain View has been a Church whose primary purpose
has been a “Ministry of Reconciliation”.
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1. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17
Notice the punctuation!
A. We believe Jesus can save “Anyone”!
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13
1. Jesus can save and transform the hardest and most vile person into “a new
creation”.
2. It is an opportunity for every person that comes to Christ to start anew!
“The old has gone”.
3. Through Jesus there is hope!
a. The reason Jesus came: Luke 19:10
b. The reason Jesus tarries: 2 Peter 3:8-9
2. “We are therefore Christ’s Ambassadors, as though God were making
His appeal through us.”
2 Corinthians 5:20
A. We share a strong conviction that Jesus can transform lives.
1. The People of Mountain View believe that Jesus has called us to a
“ministry of Reconciliation”.
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation…”
2 Corinthians 5:18
B. Each one of us that have experienced this “Good News” know it works!
C. These past 34 years I have served alongside some great “Ambassadors for Christ!”
D. In each of the three decades of our ministry (1988-2022):
1st - The Growing Years
Question: How many remember when the verses on our walls today
were on banners in the old building on 2nd and Owyhee? These
describe our Ministry of Reconciliation.
2nd - The Building Years
Question: How many remember when we built this building and
moved into it in February of 2003? Watch and Listen to our vision for
the Ministry of Reconciliation.
3rd - The Thriving Years
Question: How many remember when we burned the Mountain View
Church mortgage that demonstrated our Ministry of Reconciliation?