Not Man's Gospel

Sunday, September 25, 2011
Ben Janssen
Galatians: The Guilt of Legalism vs. The Gospel of Liberty
Galatians 1:10-24

Some Jewish converts to Christianity in Galatia accused the apostle Paul of softening his stance on the gospel in order to attract people to his message. Paul addamently denies this. He gives a brief summary of his own conversion story in order to demonstrate that the message he preached was the “official” gospel that God had revealed. And while it is good missionary work to find ways to befriend those who do not yet believe, the goal of the gospel is to bring glory to God who empowers it.

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Galatians 1:10-24
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contextualization
conversion
Evangelism
friendship
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persuasion
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Series Info

Galatians: The Guilt of Legalism vs. The Gospel of Liberty

Series Description

Not long after the Apostle Paul had planted churches in the Roman province of Galatia, he heard that the Christians there had begun to drift away from the gospel. In his letter to the Galatian churches, Paul confronts the distorted gospel that they were starting to embrace, and rebukes those who were responsible for leading the church away from the gospel upon which those churches were founded. By studying Galatians we discover that the only alternative to the gospel of liberty is a “gospel” of legalism, which still tempts Christians today.

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