We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
-- 2 Corinthians 5:20, 18-20
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How can this be done without healthy self-understanding?
