{"id":899,"date":"2009-01-26T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/galatians_1_-_standing_for_the_gospel.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:45","slug":"galatians_1_-_standing_for_the_gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/galatians_1_-_standing_for_the_gospel.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Galatians 1 – Standing for the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My study of Ecclesiastes<\/a> was very productive. I decided that i needed to return to the New Testament, but since I had spent a lot of time in the gospels before Ecclesiastes, I decided to return to one of the epistles. Galatians kept popping in my head, so here I am.<\/em>
\nGalatians 1:6 – After a short greeting, Paul dives right in, challenging them on “deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ”. No sensitive consideration of their viewpoint or feelings.
\nGalatians 1:9 – Paul does not mince words – if anyone is preaching a different gospel, let him be cursed. We tolerate a lot of different gospels, don’t we? By ‘tolerate’ I don’t necessarily mean accept, but we treat them as if they are valid gospels. We accept them as alternate teachings too easily, I think. We don’t have to berate and rebuke at every turn, but there is a way to stand firm when we see a ‘gospel’ that is not the gospel. I don’t get the impression that Paul was much concerned about who might be offended here by calling their teachings false.
\nGalatians 1:15-19 – Paul seems to go out of his way to drive home the point that the gospel he preaches is not his own nor that of the other apostles. He received it directly from God (see verse 1 as well). He wasn’t claiming to have a different teaching than the others, only to say that it was from God. If you refuse it, you are refusing not Paul or ‘the church’ but God. He seems to be nailing this down to make it clear that what he was about to write was not debatable or a matter of opinion.
\nIn our age of so many churches and denominations, on one hand there is a lot of legitimate value in the vast variety of understandings. Still, there is a need to stand for the one and only gospel of Christ. The challenge is how to do both. When we claim to have all understanding, as my family of churches, and the larger CoC tribe before them once did (and sometime still do), we block out any knowledge but our own. We not only prevent our own growth, we alienate others who need to be taught by what we do understand.
\nHowever, the other extreme is to never confront anyone when they are clearly far away from the gospel. I think I tend to fall into this trap, it’s the easy way, and it sounds and feels righteous. No confrontation, being nice and ‘respectful’. But respect does not demand silence, but to speak firmly demands respect and discernment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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