Unity among any people of any group is so fulfilling. Unity in a team makes it so much fun and is so crucial for any ‘success’. How much the more for a fledgling new community of the resurrected Jesus in a hostile world?!

Paul continues recounting his story to try and call the people in the Galatian network back to what he first taught them, - that the gospel of Jesus’ dying and rising for the forgiveness of all sin and new life for the whole world is all they need to be fully fledged, hope-filled people in Christ with a bright future together in him.

They do not need the ‘gospel +’ anything else, like Jewish law; customs, dietary rules, sabbath rules, work rules or circumcision etc… Paul will recount a very big moment in his life and in the life of this first church that would echo on into our day.

It is the account of the day when unity in the gospel won the day. This ‘victory’ was not certain. If those Jerusalem ‘capital A’ apostles had allowed any hint of ‘gospel +’ Jewish law to be the foundation of our new life in Jesus’ new creation, then it would have been ‘all bad’. But they ‘walked the walk’ and here we are: people who have received the same freeing gospel from the same wonderful Saviour. Praying you bask in the unity you share with everyone gathered and those all over the world and even those Jerusalem Apostles.

Pastor Adrian