When Paul greats the churches in Galatia he starts off reminding them that we have grace and peace from God who:
- gave himself for our sins
- to deliver us from the present evil age
- not because we deserve it, but because it is the will of God (Galatians 1:3-5)
He is absolutely amazed that although this miraculous event happened people are turning away from Christ to a different... which provides a distorted view of Christ.
Christianity has the ability to change lives. It's not through our own efforts, but through the prompting of God's Holy Spirit that comes in and radically changes out lives. The Bible teaches us that there is only one way to the Father. Through believing in the fact that His son, Jesus, not only died for our sins but was risen again on the third day. (1 Cor 15)
It doesn't end there... because He died for our sins, we are no longer bond by the curse of sin, if we believe in this, we are a new creation, our old sins have passed away... we are a new creation and have been adopted into God's family where we can call Him Daddy (Abba). (Galatians 4)
It doesn't end there either! He has called us to do great things... displaying His love to a world that desperately needs to hear salvation, and as a result, we share the gospel as He leads us to, and lives are changed bringing others into the Family of God. (John 4)
Any church that never reminds us of this, that does not have a sense of urgency to reach outside of its doors to reach the lost is in danger of just being a social gathering where we just work on ourselves!!
When we look at the life of Christ, He was constantly talking to those who needed a savior. We are called Christians because we do the same thing that Christ did.
Let us take action and remember who we are!
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