The Mystery of Godliness
The Lord's Day Morning August 22, 2004 I Timothy 3:14-16 “The Mystery of Godliness” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter three. We’re working our way through this book. In fact, we're working our way through the Pastoral Epistles, these three letters from Paul, a veteran pastor, church planter, evangelist and missionary, to a young pastor named Timothy and another young pastor/church planter named Titus. In those letters Paul sketches out the priorities of Christian life in the local congregation. In fact, in what we've studied so far in I Timothy 1, 2, and 3, we've seen Paul address the goal of Christian teaching, what it's supposed to aim for. He's also addressed the issue of the role of…