A SEAT AT THE TABLE (1 OF 10)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Galatians 1:1-9
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A Seat at the Table (1 of 10)
Series: Live Free - A Study of Galatians
Craig Smith
Galatians 1:1-9
Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. So good to have you with us today, whether you're joining us in person or online. We're beginning a new series today on living free. Jesus said, ''If the Son sets you free, then you are free indeed.'' (John 8:36) But as much as we talk about freedom as Christians, actually experiencing freedom can be surprisingly difficult. In some ways, Christians remind me of Americans, and here's what I mean: here in the US we like to talk about how free we are...we have freedom bumpers stickers on our cars, we wear freedom Tshirts, we go to freedom festivals..but we actually have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. So the land of the free actually has the smallest percentage of free people. And Christianity can be like that. We can talk a good game about being free, but do we actually experience it? That's what this series is about.
Now our guide for this series is going to be the book of Galatians. If you're new to the Bible, the book of Galatians is one of the books in what we call the New Testament portion of the bible. It was written to a group of people in a province of the ancient Roman empire called Galatia...kind of in between Jerusalem and Rome. Sometime in the middle of the first century, the people of Galatia - who were not Jewish - were visited by a Jewish man named Paul. And Paul was an interesting guy. He had been born, raised and educated according to a very strict Jewish culture which meant that he believed that in order to be part of God's family, you had to be Jewish. And to be Jewish meant that you had to behave in Jewish ways. From Paul's perspective, behaving came before belonging.
Now Paul hated a man named Jesus, partly because he claimed to be the son of God...but also because Jesus flipped the script. Throughout his ministry, Jesus seemed to operate under the belief that belonging came bef ...
Series: Live Free - A Study of Galatians
Craig Smith
Galatians 1:1-9
Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. So good to have you with us today, whether you're joining us in person or online. We're beginning a new series today on living free. Jesus said, ''If the Son sets you free, then you are free indeed.'' (John 8:36) But as much as we talk about freedom as Christians, actually experiencing freedom can be surprisingly difficult. In some ways, Christians remind me of Americans, and here's what I mean: here in the US we like to talk about how free we are...we have freedom bumpers stickers on our cars, we wear freedom Tshirts, we go to freedom festivals..but we actually have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. So the land of the free actually has the smallest percentage of free people. And Christianity can be like that. We can talk a good game about being free, but do we actually experience it? That's what this series is about.
Now our guide for this series is going to be the book of Galatians. If you're new to the Bible, the book of Galatians is one of the books in what we call the New Testament portion of the bible. It was written to a group of people in a province of the ancient Roman empire called Galatia...kind of in between Jerusalem and Rome. Sometime in the middle of the first century, the people of Galatia - who were not Jewish - were visited by a Jewish man named Paul. And Paul was an interesting guy. He had been born, raised and educated according to a very strict Jewish culture which meant that he believed that in order to be part of God's family, you had to be Jewish. And to be Jewish meant that you had to behave in Jewish ways. From Paul's perspective, behaving came before belonging.
Now Paul hated a man named Jesus, partly because he claimed to be the son of God...but also because Jesus flipped the script. Throughout his ministry, Jesus seemed to operate under the belief that belonging came bef ...
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