HUMBLE . UNIFIED . BOLD
HUMBLE
The Ambassador aims to see all people humbled by the power of the cross. God requires a recognized need for him to draw near. For it is not in our strength, but in our weakness that we are made strong. Humility destroys ethnic, social, and political pride and allows us to see each other for what we are; searching, broken, and in need. We hope for a revival of God blessed humility that calls us to the command to fully love Christ so that we may rightly love our neighbor.
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
PHILIPPIANS 2:1-4
UNIFIED
The Ambassador believes that Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15), thus, Jesus is One with the Father. It is this miraculous standard that Jesus prays over his followers in the Gospel of John. Jesus not only foreknew that his message would go to all nations, but he commanded his disciples to be the conduits through which it would be. Jesus prayed this prayer in anticipation of the divisive opposition to this cross-cultural message that would break barriers and unite his followers despite their differences. This diversity in unity, in the 1st century church and the 21st century church, was, is, and will be the most powerful apologetic for a world searching for God.
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
JOHN 17:20-23
BOLD
Running to the tension is often done on a road paved with fear. Ironically, “Do not fear”, is one of the most common commands in the Bible. This command is not a call to suppress our emotions, but rather a call to realize that when God is near, fear must move. The Ambassador believes that fear, although a worthy opponent, has to bow in the presence of God. We desire to see a generation raised by the Spirit and mobilized against division whether unashamed and full of hope - in the spirit of David - or uncertain and full of fear - in the spirit of Moses.
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.