Tag: Galatians

We have a concept of the ancient church leadership and the modern church leadership being organized and connected as a cohesive unit. The reality in both ancient and modern times is that while the leadership of both organizations were united in their efforts to bring people to Christ and the salvation He offered, the individual…

Galatians 5 – 6 We should be as conscious with the works of the flesh (adultery, formication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, and revellings) as we are with the fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance). Both lists help…

Galatians 4 Heirs are no different than servants until they come of age.

Galatians 2 – 3 It sounds as if Paul and Peter had some rather public disagreements about proper conduct. I should be careful how far I follow this thought but it occurs to me that one possible factor leading to the apostasy might be that even those who produced what became the original scriptures of…

Galatians 1 I wonder if Paul ever saw Christ before His death. He may have been young enough that he wasn’t among the Pharisees before Christ was crucified—as far as I know we don’t know how long after the death of Christ that Stephen was stoned nor how long after Stephen was stoned that Paul…