Growing with Galatians - 6/14/2013

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.(Galatians 1:6–7, ESV)

Stephen Covey famously said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” This is, in essence, what Paul is saying to the people in Galatia. The main thing is the Gospel. The Gospel, the love God demonstrated in Christ, is the core message of Christianity. How did they lose the main thing, the Gospel? They lost it by adding something to it (a ritual called circumcision). The Gospel was complete as it was. The Gospel needed no additions. Adding to the Gospel only diluted it. They added work to the Gospel and it became less potent. They would have been better doing LESS. In our lives, what we do matters, but what we choose NOT to do also matters. Keeping the main thing the main thing often involves what we choose NOT to do as much as what we choose to do. Less is more. What is YOUR MAIN THING? What do you need NOT to do to keep your main thing the main thing? Today, make a TO DON’T LIST of things you will not do.