✝️ Galatians 2:20 | "I have been crucified with Christ"

Happy Monday, everyone!

Dying is something most of us try to avoid, but in our verse this week, it’s the main way we follow Jesus!

I’m excited to explore the radical devotion depicted in Galatians 2:20 with you!

In today’s email…

• 🫤 The problem in Galatia

• ✝️ Living the true gospel

• 🎵 A song to help you reflect on Galatians 2:20

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MEMORIZE 🧠 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20

CONTEXT 📕 

The book of Galatians helps us understand the heart of the gospel message.

This week, we’ll look at what it means to be truly free in Christ and what it costs to have that freedom.

Date: Most scholars date Galatians between AD 48 and 55, making it one of Paul’s earliest letters.

Audience: Churches in Galatia, a region in central Asia Minor (modern Turkey), including cities like Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Paul had founded these churches during his first missionary journey (Acts 13–14).

Cultural context: After the resurrection of Jesus and the spread of the good news throughout the Roman world, some early Christians began questioning whether Gentile believers needed to follow Jewish law to belong to God’s people.

And some even began teaching false things about Jesus and what is required for salvation.

But Paul makes it clear that common Jewish practices are not required for Gentile believers to be saved:

In other words, the umbrella of salvation has been expanded to all who have faith in Jesus, and not by obedience to the law.

In Galatians, Paul reminds us:

• Recognize the gift: The magnitude of God’s grace

• Protect the integrity of the gift: To resist the temptation to add or take away from God’s grace

• Go and use the gift: To accept the radical invitation to die to self and reflect the Jesus who lives in you

These are the ideas we’ll be unpacking this week.

APPLY AND RESPOND 🏃‍♂️

📖 Read: I encourage you to read all of Galatians (6 chapters total). And at the very least, read Galatians 2 to prepare for the verse.

🧠 Reflect: Name one person in your life who you have seen “die to themself”? What is it that they do/did that made you think of them?

🙏 Pray

Lord Jesus, I confess how stubborn I can be to the way I want life to work. This week, teach me to lay down my desires, my pride, and my fear. Guide me by your Spirit this week to live more like Jesus and less like me.

SONG OF THE WEEK 🎵 

Here’s a song by The Corner Room to help you memorize this week’s verse:

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ANSWER KEY ✅ 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2:20