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What do you do when you’ve made a mess of things? Where do you go when you’ve blown it badly? How does the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ empower us to combat things like hypocrisy, pride, people-pleasing, and apostasy? Paul’s letter to the Galatians tells us what we need to know in these situations as he teaches us how to rely upon costly grace. In this fresh and engaging commentary,...

Is it any wonder, then, that Paul injects the theme of people-pleasing into the letter at this point? He must confront people-pleasing head-on because he knows it’s a big part of the crisis in Galatia. And what he wants to say to the Galatians—and what I believe God wants to say to each of us—is simply this: people-pleasers don’t make good servants of Christ. You see, people-pleasers don’t make good servants of Christ because people-pleasers
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