1. Do we have to show you our qualifications again? Do we, like some people, need letters that recommend us to you or letters from you that recommend us to others?
2. You’re our letter of recommendation written in our hearts that everyone knows and reads.
3. It’s clear that you are Christ’s letter, written as a result of our ministry. You are a letter written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, a letter written not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4. Christ gives us confidence about you in God’s presence.
5. By ourselves we are not qualified in any way to claim that we can do anything. Rather, God makes us qualified.
6. He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.
7. The ministry that brought death was inscribed on stone. Yet, it came with such glory that the people of Israel couldn’t look at Moses’ face. His face was shining with glory, even though that glory was fading.
8. Won’t the ministry that brings the Spirit have even more glory?