Let’s begin by talking about the Gospel and Ministry, your ministry and mine, our ministry together. This text is one of my four or five favorites and you will find me repeating it often: II Corinthians 4:6. Listen.

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (II Cor. 4:6 KJV)

I don’t know another text that gathers up the wholeness of the Gospel as that one does. It is the Gospel in a nutshell.

There’s only one word for this text: Incredible.

Listen to this: The radiant glory of God shines in the face of Jesus Christ - this is the incredibility of the incarnation.

The radiant glory of God, shining in the face of Jesus Christ, has shined in our hearts - this is …