Gal 2:11-20: We Are Justified Only By Faith

The Situation (Gal 2:11-13) Part of the life of the early church was that they participated in a communal meal called an “Agape Feast”, or “Love Feast”. Here the whole congregation came together to share a meal prepared from them pooling whatever resources they had. For some slaves, this may have been the only nice Read More …

Gal 1:11-2:10: Paul – Taught By God

Last week we talked about how there is only one gospel, and to add or to take away from it is to invite God’s curse. This gospel is about how we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ alone without any good works. Relationship between faith and good works So a question came up about Read More …

Galatians 1:1-2 – Introduction to Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

Here is a recording of the session. Notes of the content are below. We are beginning a new study of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, and today we will focus on what we can look forward to learning from this study. Here is the first sentence in Cole’s commentary of Galatians. “The epistle to the Read More …