[annalex]

Is that INDEED what St. Paul is talking about? ... This is what you've got?

Yes, that is what St. Paul is talking about in 2 Corinthians 5:15-20. Where do you see my exegesis differ from the inspired text?

The ministry of confession is what Paul calls reconciliation?

So does everyone. "Confession" is a colloquial term for the Sacrament of Reconciliation referring to the whole by its part, where the penitent confesses (tells about) his sins. Other parts are absolution, petition for mercy, and doing penance.

[smvoice]

Not according to verse 18,19. "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."

There is no "ministry of confession" there. It is God who is reconciling man to Himself, not man reconciling himself to God by confession.