HOW to Let Our Light Shine (Matthew 5:16)

This article was given as a speech at the New Jersey retreat. It falls to me in this series of retreat speeches to address the “How” of letting our light shine. Our focus is actually quite narrow, because we want to look at that little word “so” in our theme text: “Let your light SO shine before men.” That word points us to the “how,” for it means “thus, i.e., in this manner or way.” That “so” points back to verse 15, where Jesus said that we are not to hide our light under a bushel but are to...