God Centered Life

If you are being persecuted for being a child of the promise, it is a telling identity marker that you are His. Who are you really? Are you defined by your parents, where you live, your gender, or by your relationship with Christ?

Paul is launching identity markers for the Galatian church. He's calling them to put their identity in the Bible storyAbraham, Isaac, Christrather than in a religiosity, Pharisaic, legalistic identity. Do you identify yourself with God's grace-filled people?

Paul lays out characteristics of proper pastoring because the Galatians were facing false teachers. How do we spot true gospel pastors?

These verses help us to discern good pastoral leadership, appropriate discipleship, and the right way to accept shepherding. We want you to have the tools of discernment so that you can receive true biblical teaching.

The gospel is not new but it is good news. Our job is to guard the deposit and present that message to other people, not to come up with some newfangled idea.

We don't want to get wrapped up in forms and structure without the power of God at work in them. It is the power of Christ that we want you to experience today.

Here Paul describes a form of godliness without the power of Christ. We need structure, but if that's all there is, we're missing the main point, which is Christ and his power. We want you to have him and that power at work in your life.

In the true teaching of holiness, when we become more holy, we do not become less human or less who we were meant to be, we become more who God designed us to be. There's a beauty and a wholeness to true holiness.

Paul says this form of religion is like being a slavelike being held back in immaturity and not going on to mature spirituality. In the gospel we move from this slavery relationship to one of adoption with full rights as sons and daughters in Christ.

Living in the AD reality of Christ's death and resurrection means to live as sons of the heavenly Father with the desire to please him in every way and to have fellowship that is unbroken by the barriers that we construct between each other in our fallen state.