The fight against legalism began long before the modern American Church, but Paul's fight against it gives us great insight into our fight as well.
Galatians Hoffman Street Baptist Church
When can we brag without being in sin?
What are you planting as you live your life? Do you expect to have different results in your life than what you put into it?
Burdens and Loads are different? Which do we carry alone and which do we carry with each other?
Are you living by God's Spirit or by your flesh?
Let's deal with modern day issues and equivalents to circumcision, like baptism. Also we are to live our freedom out through the Spirit by faith. How can we do that practically?
Are we children of blessing and of Sarah or are we children of slavery and Hagar?
Our tendency as religious people is become proud people and Paul shows us that we should not but instead should rely on the Holy Spirit.
When we choose moral conformity and find our worth out of our ability to obey the law of God, we are choosing to follow demons rather than the God who gave us the law.
The purpose of the law is to point us to Jesus and our need for Him. It is through Jesus that we become heirs of Abraham.
Living by all the rules in the Bible cannot save you, the law only brings death.
Hypocrisy spreads like wild fire. It can happen by living a way that is different from how Christ calls us to live and that gives permission to others to do the same. Also if we cater to those who create rules that are not endorsed by the Gospel, we tell others that they have to live by those rules as well.
What should our unity in and under the Gospel of Jesus spur on... Compasion! See how this plays out in the early Church.
Have you ever wondered if the Apostle Paul was just a late comer to the faith and rode the coattails of the other Apostles? Let's examine Paul's claims to be an Apostle and his authority as one.
Jesus plus anything isn't Jesus! What do we add to the Gospel that takes away from what Jesus has done for us?
Join us as we start this wonderful book based around the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the fight against legalism!