Christs Ambassadors?

Christ’s ambassadors?

The apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians said,
“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.  
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.  
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!  
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 men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”  
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.  
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
                     2 Corinthians 5:14-21.
I write this to Christians but I present it here for all to read. Knowing it’s a controversial topic among Christians.
Question to Christians from me a Christian of over forty years. Are you a true ambassador for Christ?
Are you offering to the world around you the olive branch of reconciliation?
Over the last few days I’ve heard on the news of a woman in a clerks office in the United States refusing to issue marriage licences to a gay couple on the grounds she believes it is morally wrong.
While I agree that she has the right to her belief that same sex marriage is morally wrong. This woman is not in a church. She is in a civil secular position and is required to obey the law.
She and I believe any Christian in a government position must obey the law even if they find it morally wrong. If they find laws that they must administer morally wrong perhaps they should not be in that position.
Remember it was the apostle Paul who said,
“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.  
Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.  
For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.  
For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.” 
                            Romans 13:1-5.
Keep in mind that Paul wrote this when the emperor Nero was in power an emperor who burned Christians alive among other atrocities. Yet the apostle still wrote,
“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.”
Sometimes I think Christians in North America and particularly those in the United States suffer from too much freedom and rights.
They claim “THEIR RIGHTS” at the top of their voice. Yet fail to see others in the secular democracy that they live in have also been given rights.
And yes those rights might conflict with the moral views of Christians but then that has been happening since the day Christ was born.
The apostles lived with the fact that the Roman Empire in which they lived had is some cases vastly different moral view than they had. Yet not once do I see anywhere in the New Testament the apostles speaking out against the Roman government.
The apostles offered the gospel of the Prince of Peace to the world. They never yelled “I have my rights.”
Tony Campolo the American evangelist wrote,
“We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.”
                              Tony Campolo.
I do not believe Christians have the right to prevent others from exercising their rights in a secular democracy. Quite the contrary they should be standing up for the rights of all people. Because in standing up for the rights of all people we are also standing up for our own.
Please think about it.