We are called to be “stewards of the mysteries of God” (1 Cor. 4:1). And the great mystery is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). And that glory is the glory of God. And “it is required of stewards that they be found faithful” (1 Cor. 4:1)—faithful in magnifying the supreme glory of the one eternal God. Not magnifying like a microscope that makes small things look bigger, but like a telescope that makes unimaginably great galaxies of glory visible to the human eye. If we love our people, if we love the “other sheep” that are not yet gathered into the fold, if we love the
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