Why is the mystery of the Gospel missing from our Churches?
My very good friend, Pastor Kindah Greening tell me that the essential content of Christian preaching, the mystery of the gospel is simply missing from our churches. The Apostle Paul writes that the preaching of the Word of God is seen in "the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations but has now been manifested to His saints" (Col. 1:26). A mystery? All around Asia Minor and the ancient world at this time, there were mystery religions and mystery cults , and there were some who thought, especially from the Roman perspective, that Christianity was just another one of them. After all, it had its mystery. And Paul said, "Guilty as charged." Yet this is not a mystery of esoteric knowledge. This is not a gnosticism of elitist intellectuals. No, this is a mystery that was hidden by God until it could be publicly revealed in the incarnation of Jesus Christ , in His death, burial, and resurrection. This is a mystery! There is something de...