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The Mystery of Christ: … and Why We Don’t Get It is unavailable, but you can change that!

Widely recognized as a creative, insightful writer, Robert Farrar Capon offers still more of his uniquely provocative fare in The Mystery of Christ … and Why We Don’t Get It. This engaging book probes the meaning of salvation—peace, forgiveness, grace, reconciliation—spoken of in the New Testament as a “mystery.” Reminding his readers—sometimes in startling ways—that salvation is a gift rather...

get sin out of our lives by our own efforts; only God can do that. So when I’m counseling, I simply refuse to talk about the sinfulness of any particular human act. And here I’m going to talk about it only if you promise to remember this: for as long as we’re on the subject of the sinfulness (or not) of homosexuality, we will be temporarily leaving the great subject of God’s free gift in Christ in order to muck about in the distinctly two-bit subjects of morality and ethics. Okay? FRANK: But doesn’t
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