God is the Gospel -- Chapter 6

• The greatest good in the gospel is the gift of seeing and savoring the glory of
  God in Christ forever.
• The holiness of Christian people and the conversion of perishing people hang on seeing and savoring the glory of God in the gospel.
• it is crucial for evangelism and missions that we
  understand that true saving faith is grounded on a spiritual sight of
  the glory of God in the gospel. This will have a huge impact on the
  way we think about missions and evangelism. The primary impact
  will be to make sure that the missionary and the evangelist are spiritual
  people who see and savor the glory of God in the face of
  Christ.
• The Spirit and the Word are both essential. The
  story of Christ must be told, and the Spirit of Christ must be triumphant.
• Understanding the decisive purpose of the gospel as the revelation of the glory of Christ is
  the biblical key to Christian holiness.
• It shows how Christ-exalting the Holy
  Spirit is. He will not do his sanctifying work by the use of his direct
  divine power. He will only do it by making the glory of Christ the
  immediate cause of it. This is the way he works in evangelism, and
  this is the way he works in sanctification.
• The work of the Holy Spirit in changing us is not
  to work directly on our bad habits but to make us admire Jesus
  Christ so much that sinful habits feel foreign and distasteful.
• And as we behold the glory of Christ in the gospel and savor his
  purity, we come to see sin as repugnant, and salvation as magnificent