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This week we have a Revolution first! Jay is taking a break from continuing forward with the Galatians series so that we can revisit the first three chapters. Some might call it beating a dead horse, we call it an overview! Or a recap. Regardless of what it’s called, it’s important to revisit before moving forward again. The reason it is important is because we have to remember just how timely this letter to the Galatians is – Paul is trying to save a community. A community that is dividing itself rather than uniting. A community that is creating a different gospel by becoming disciplinarians and Kingdom Monitors and gatekeepers. A community that forgot how we’re all the same - that we are all flawed and fall short. Sadly, these themes are still just as present today as they were back when Paul first wrote this. It’s this mindset and division that takes the Good News and makes it not very good at all. That through our legalistic and disciplinarian mindsets we are caught up in another gospel - not a gospel that unifies us through Christ’s teachings. Paul isn’t asking us to do anything he’s not doing himself, he is doing his best to lead by example. We need to see that we can show Grace to each other even if we’re not on the same side. Even if we don’t agree. Going to war over these differences will leave us with nothing left. In Jesus’s time, Rome knew what they were doing – they found ways to divide the community so that they could continue to rule. Keeping the people divided and distracted and fighting amongst themselves so that there was nothing left of them…Yikes, thank goodness that’s not happening anymore, right? Thankfully that is a thing of the past - could you even imagine if that was happening today…
This talk was given on February 13, 2022 in Seattle, Washington.
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