THE AFTERWORD | Down to Earth - Week 3 - Sonship

WestGate Church Teaching

What do circumcision, the Book of Galatians and Baby Jesus have in common? MOre than you’d think. In the Book of Acts, chapter 15, we have one of the first real church conflicts. A group of Jewish leaders were conviced that this new Jesus movement was basically a new form of Judaism, with a Messiah tacked on. But others said, “No, no. This a brand new thing altogether.” So…are the laws and customs of Moses still binding, or…no? Paul, writing to the Galatians with passion and emotion says Jesus is doing a new thing, because the law, as great as it was, could never really be kept by anyway. This is good news to these fledgling Jesus communities because it means that no one is granted this gift of Jesus Christ on the grounds of their ethnic worth, or their adherence to any sort of religious tradition – even Judaism! And that means that no one of any ethnicity or background is excluded from God’s saving reach. Speakers: David Tieche + Jay Kim + Andy Gridley