"Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation." (2 Corinthians 5:18 and 19.)

The Apostle Paul believed that we are never to consider ministry as "our own." In his second letter to the Corinthians, he reminds his readers that, through Christian faith, all are part of a new creation. We are a radically transformed order where Christ's love, instituted through the cross, governs all perception and every action. "The ministry of reconciliation" is to be understood as that for which Christ's love claims the whole believing community, and the "word" of reconciliation is the Gospel itself: God's saving power made present through the cross.

"Reconciliation" on the cross bars can embrace anyone, anywhere, anytime.