Jesus is the light of the world. In this Christmas series, we’ll explore a fuller understanding of what that means. 

From Genesis to Revelation, God uses light as a subtle yet powerful image to describe Himself and His activity of redemption. In the New Testament, John picks up on the light in significant ways. Being one of the three disciples who witnessed the Transfiguration, John’s writings explicitly connect God’s light with the Incarnate Son. 

In the Gospel of John, we observe a series of declarations–Jesus is THE Light. In 1 John, we wrestle with the implications of living according to this light: “Are we people of Christ or not?” Finally, in Revelation 21-22, John culminates his corpus by re-centering our focus on the Son who is himself the fulfillment of the light (radiation of divine life) from the very beginning.