2 Corinthians 2:17-3:6
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, and read by everyone. 2 Corinthians 3:2
Paul didn't require a letter of recommendation when he spoke to the church in Corinth, they knew him.
In his second letter to that church, Paul wrote that he preached the gospel out of sincerity, not for personal gain.
As we follow Jesus, this becomes true of us too, our lives tell the story of the goodness of the gospel.
Globalization and the attendant concerns about poverty and inequality have become a focus of discussion in a way that few other topics, except for international terrorism or global warming, have. Most people have a strong opinion on globalization, and all of them express an interest in the well-being of the world's poor. The financial press and influential international officials confidently assert that global free markets expand the horizons for the poor, whereas activist-protesters hold the opposite belief with equal intensity. Yet the strength of people's conviction is often in inverse proportion to the amount of robust factual evidence they have.As is common in contentious public debates, different people mean different things by the same word. Some interpret "globalization" to mean the global reach of communications technology and capital movements, some think of the outsourcing by domestic companies in rich countries, and others see globalization as a byword for...
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