Top Highlights

• To be God’s image-bearers means we are created for relationships.
• Here, the word “beholding” means “to reflect as in a mirror.”1  That which we gaze upon is “the glory of the Lord.” As we gaze, we are transformed into his image. And the medium by which this transformation takes place—the mirror in which his glorious image is viewed—is the gospel.
• While much could be said about this passage, the main point is that God’s glory, revealed in Jesus, is seen in the message of the gospel. The gospel is the mirror which reflects God’s glory. The gospel is our portal to personal transformation. As Tim Keller writes, The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom,...
• The goal of this book is to explain where the process of transformation fits and how it happens in the Christian life.
• My purpose in this book is to bring these pieces together, presenting a single, unified, gospel-centered vision of how to understand and live the Christian life.