Euangelion: Interpreting Scripture and Life

May 19, 2020

Euangelion: Interpreting Scripture and Life (Trailer)

May 15, 2020

Epilogue: Galatians - Christ, New Life and the Spirit.

<p>In this final wrap up session I'll briefly consolidate some of the ideas that we have looked at as we have examined this short but intensely powerful letter and consider the implications of these findings on the life of discipleship. Although the most important things that Paul says are indeed theological, the Apostle should not be understood primarily as a brilliant debater, scholar or theologian, but rather as a concerned pastor worried about the fragmentation of a community that ought to have no borders, because Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead .</p>

May 7, 2020

Galatians 6:11-18: The Crucifixion of the Cosmos and God's New World

<p>The term crucifixion is a very important term in Galatians. Only in Galatians 3:1 does it refer to the crucifixion of Jesus; however, it always refers to death by which the pathway to a new life is introduced. We have seen this in the experience of Paul himself in 2:19, which should be understood as normative for all Jews in Christ - crucifixion leads to living to God. We have seen it of gentiles in Galatians 5:24 - Here crucifixion leads to life on the basis of the Spirit and life ruled by the Spirit. In both these passages, the crucifixion verse precedes a new life motif. In the final occurrence of ‘crucifixion’ in Galatians 6:14, we are told that the cosmos is self is crucified. Galatians 6:15 introduces a new life motif, only, unlike the previous two passages, there is no word for ‘life’. Instead, Paul speaks of new creation; it is as if the cosmos has died and been revivified as new creation. This new creation operates with an unprecedented set of social and human dynamics; it embodies God’s new world and God’s new way of being, into which all those who are in Christ have now been welcomed.</p>