1) How do you describe the world around you? Do you consider yourself as being in danger? What do you need to be rescued from (1:4)?
2) Why would the churches in Galatia turn from the gospel of grace to a gospel of works (1:6)? Do we struggle with fully accepting grace today?
3) Who is the most influential in your spiritual journey? Who has the strongest voice into your life of faith?
The world is a difficult, dark and evil place, but God sent His Son to rescue us from it. Because of the work of Christ on the cross, we can live free of the trappings of this world.
Grace has been simply defined as God giving us what we do not deserve. This includes His favor, His love and salvation among other things. In knowing that we do not deserve this from Him, we often have a sense of needing to work to pay God back for what He has done. Pure grace truly is overwhelming, but it’s all that is needed.
Paul seems to go to great lengths to make sure we understand he was called directly by God and not through the influence of others (1:11-12). Others certainly play a major role in our spiritual development. However, we must continually be developing our relationship directly with God.
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