“I had a dream that I would be an ambassador of my country.”  But, when Peter Kolarovsky’s dream didn’t happen, he reasoned, “It’s probably better to be an ambassador of God’s Kingdom.”

So, what does it mean to be “an ambassador of God’s Kingdom?”  The apostle Paul even uses the term “ambassador” in 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NKJV) where he writes, “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” 

Concerning being an ambassador for Christ, British Bible commentator William Barclay gives this insight: “An ambassador of Britain is a Briton in a foreign land.  His life is spent among people who usually speak a different language, who have a different tradition and a different way of life.  The Christian is always like that.  He lives in the world; he takes part in all the life and the work of the world; but he is a citizen of heaven.  To that extent he is a stranger.  The Christian is always a Christian in an alien world.  The man who is not willing to be different cannot be a Christian at all.”(1)

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1.  William Barclay, The Letters to the Corinthians (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954), 234.