When my now-grown children were young, one of their favorite bedtime books was

Where’s Waldo?  Truth be told, it was one of mine as well.

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Now, our six grandchildren are following in their parents’ footsteps, and PaPa C, my

granddad name, gets to read "Where’s Waldo?" bedtime books once again.

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If you’re familiar with the Waldo series, you know it’s based on a really simple concept:

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Find Waldo on a page that is chock-full of other like-sized and visually similar

characters and objects in a story tableau. Waldo is dressed each time in a bold red and white striped shirt, a red and white striped hat, blue pants and big, round, black glasses, carrying a stack of books.

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You might think he’d be easy to find, but trust me and thousands of parents and kids, he is NOT easy to find!

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By now you may be wondering what the search for Waldo has to do the Gospel of Jesus.

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Simply put, churches have been forgetting important aspects of Gospel for so long that finding the complete Gospel of Jesus, the Christ, in the church can seem a lot like looking for Waldo.

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You ask, “What’s the complete Gospel of Jesus, the Christ?”

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