# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1971_S86
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

testimony of the church throughout the ages, should we
feel inferior when among unbelievers and cynics? We
are His ambassadors!

What kind of song are we singing? Today there are
thousands of people of another Persuasion ringing the
doorbells of this city, And by God’s grace you and
I have such a certain sound. God was in Christ. Are
people Saying of us, “See how they love one another”?
Paul, you know, scolded the Corinthians for their hypo-
critical conduct. “Yoy should be ashamed of your-
Selves,” he thundered in effect. “Have you no decency,
that you bring the faith into disrepute by your dis-
8usting behavior? You have made Christianity the
laughing stock of the world.”

MORNING DEVOTIONS

A Love Song

For the love of Christ leaves us no choice, when once we
ave reached the conclusion that one Man died for all and
therefore all mankind has died. His purpose in dying for all
was that men, while still in life, should cease to live for
themselves and should live for Him who for their sake died
and was raised to life. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NEB)

In beautiful simplicity Pay] here sums up the Mas-
ter’s love Song in four little words. “He died for al.”
He, Christ, heaven-born and earth-born too. Jesus,

he writes to Timothy (1:17), “Now unto the King eter.
nal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor
and glory forever and ever.” HE loved us. HE DIED.

in His cry, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?”

He died for ALL — for you and for me. This is no
love like ours, fickle and small, that rises and falls, that
is present in morning and evening worship and gets
lost in the wilderness day. And at the heart of it Paul
saw Christ’s love for Paul. Jesus shed His blood for
him. And that same love went out to all. And who

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