“Here is the confession: Galatians 4 has always been a bore to me…but I realize now it’s not.” That’s one way to introduce the next chapter in the series, but he wasn’t lying, the new stuff Jay discovered in this chapter is important and indeed not boring. Paul was very sick when he was in Galatia, and it was his time there that he was able to teach and share his message of Grace. He was expressing gratitude to them, and reminding them of how hospitable their community was…now in this letter he’s asking What happened to that Galatia I knew? Jay acknowledges that this letter is harsh, it’s understandable why people, especially in this current political climate, might be scared of Paul and the things he says – but this is also the best letter written on Grace, and without Paul we miss a deeper level of Grace. Jay poses the question: can we fully learn who Christ was or what he was doing if we don’t read Paul? Because we can see Christ in a much deeper way with Paul. Paul is asking us to live in a community and do the hard work – the hard work of loving our neighbors and enemies. He doesn’t want us to go our separate ways, to just take our toys and go home. Revolution is that community, it isn’t a safe place, but it is a place full of Grace and communication and disagreeing well so that we can build up something that is stronger than ourselves.
This talk was given on February 20, 2022 in Seattle, Washington.
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