SERMON SUMMARY

How do you interpret your own life? Usually, it’s based on what you’ve done or what people have done to you. Sadly, this often leads to endless and cancerous comparison. But what if the gospel has a different interpretation of my life than I do? In Galatians 1, Paul’s brief autobiography helps us understand how the gospel of grace can change our perspective.

How does the gospel of grace reinterpret our stories? It teaches us that what we do and what’s been done to us aren’t the things that ultimately define us. Rather, what Jesus has done for us is the thing that is most true about us.

If we are believing and trusting Jesus for this grace, that means we want to live by his interpretation of our stories and not our own. And now, what is most true about you is that you are loved. You are accepted. You are his son or daughter. He set you apart before you were born. He called you by his grace. He is pleased to welcome you into his family. Your sin doesn’t exclude you. Your shame doesn’t discount you. It is not by men, nor through man, but by the grace of Jesus that we belong. And here, there is freedom.

*We are a church located in Greenville, South Carolina. Our vision is to see God transform us into a community of grace passionately pursuing life and mission with Jesus.