Daily Word / The First Steps in Relational Reconciliation
Today’s Verse: Galatians 2:15-16
Today’s Song: O Holy Jesus
Notes:
Today we dive into Galatians 2:15-21. This is one of the most compressed and dense sections of all of Paul’s letters.
Here Paul explains why he publically rebuked Peter and gives us the key steps to relational reconciliation.
Step 1: Embrace the “we”
Step 2: Confront what is really at stake
3 Massive questions to answer:
- What does he mean by “works of the law?”
- What does he mean by righteousness?
- What does he mean by “faith in Christ?”
Key Point: the defining thing about you is not something about you! It is something that has happened to him: your relationship to him; with him; in him…