JUSTIFIED BY FAITH (3 OF 10)
by Will McGee
Scripture: Galatians 2:11-21
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Justified by Faith (3 of 10)
Series: No Other Gospel
Will McGee
Galatians 2:11-21
INTRODUCTION: This week I read an article on The Huffington Post. About a teenager (high school student), Natalie Hampton, who created an app.
- The article says,
A new app makes finding friends in the school cafeteria a piece of cake. ''Sit With Us'' helps students who have difficulty finding a place to sit locate a welcoming group in the lunchroom.
I'm sure we all remember the social anxiety of the high school cafeteria.
- Very few things are as embarrassing as being informed that you ''can't sit here.'' (You're not wanted. You're not acceptable to us.)
- But nothing is sweeter to a teenager's ears... Then, ''Hey... Come and sit with us.''
There is something extremely gratifying about being welcomed to a table... But there is also something extremely painful about being snubbed.
- The joy of being accepted. And the horror of being rejected
If you are just joining us at Crossroads, this week... We are in the middle (actually, the beginning) of a study in The Apostle Paul's Letter to the Galatians.
- This morning, we find ourselves in chapter 2. The situation is not much different than a high school cafeteria.
- There is Peter... the apostle.
- There is the misfit crowd. The Gentiles.
- There is the popular crowd. The crowd that everyone simultaneously fears and desperately wants to be accepted by. (Think, ''Regina George and The Plastics'')
- They are called ''The Circumcision Party'' or ''the Judaizers.''
What you are going to see in this passage is Peter caving in to both peer pressure and his desire to be accepted. And he is going to hurt people in the process.
- And when the Apostle Paul sees this, it angers him... He is going to get in Peter's face.
Paul writes in verse 11.
[11] But when Cephas This is Peter's other name came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. [12] For before certain men came fro ...
Series: No Other Gospel
Will McGee
Galatians 2:11-21
INTRODUCTION: This week I read an article on The Huffington Post. About a teenager (high school student), Natalie Hampton, who created an app.
- The article says,
A new app makes finding friends in the school cafeteria a piece of cake. ''Sit With Us'' helps students who have difficulty finding a place to sit locate a welcoming group in the lunchroom.
I'm sure we all remember the social anxiety of the high school cafeteria.
- Very few things are as embarrassing as being informed that you ''can't sit here.'' (You're not wanted. You're not acceptable to us.)
- But nothing is sweeter to a teenager's ears... Then, ''Hey... Come and sit with us.''
There is something extremely gratifying about being welcomed to a table... But there is also something extremely painful about being snubbed.
- The joy of being accepted. And the horror of being rejected
If you are just joining us at Crossroads, this week... We are in the middle (actually, the beginning) of a study in The Apostle Paul's Letter to the Galatians.
- This morning, we find ourselves in chapter 2. The situation is not much different than a high school cafeteria.
- There is Peter... the apostle.
- There is the misfit crowd. The Gentiles.
- There is the popular crowd. The crowd that everyone simultaneously fears and desperately wants to be accepted by. (Think, ''Regina George and The Plastics'')
- They are called ''The Circumcision Party'' or ''the Judaizers.''
What you are going to see in this passage is Peter caving in to both peer pressure and his desire to be accepted. And he is going to hurt people in the process.
- And when the Apostle Paul sees this, it angers him... He is going to get in Peter's face.
Paul writes in verse 11.
[11] But when Cephas This is Peter's other name came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. [12] For before certain men came fro ...
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