Christ Has Set Us Free: Preaching and Teaching Galatians (The Gospel Coalition)
Overview
The New Testament book of Galatians deals with this question—a question that stands at the heart of the gospel. In Christ Has Set Us Free, nine seasoned Bible teachers walk through the entirety of Galatians, offering insights on how to interpret and apply its important message about justification by faith. This book will help all who teach or study the Bible better understand what Christ has done to set us free from the power of sin through his death and resurrection.
- Commprised of sermons delivered at the Gospel Coalition’s biannual National Conference
- Provides pastors and teachers a resource to help them interpret and apply Galatians
- Explores the theme of justification by faith
- Introduction to Galatians - Thomas R. Schreiner
- Galatians and Its Reformed Interpreters - Gerald L. Bray
- Galatians 1: No Other Gospel: The Formal and Material Principles of the Reformation - John Piper
- Galatians 2: The Sufficiency of Christ - Sandy Willson
- Galatians 3: Hear the Scriptures! Receive the Promise! Believe in Christ! - Peter Adam
- Galatians 4: The Gospel of Grace: How to Read the Bible - D. A. Carson
- Galatians 5: Gospel Freedom, Gospel Fruit - Thabiti Anyabwile
- Galatians 6: Boasting in Nothing except the Cross - Timothy J. Keller
- Galatians: Solvent for the Stubborn Stains of Antinomianism and Legalism? - Sinclair B. Ferguson
Top Highlights
“But allegory, both in the ancient world and today, did not always mean exactly the same thing: it depended on context. It’s a word that covers several different things.” (Page 101)
“That is, he abandoned reliance on the law as the way by which righteousness before God is to be pursued and attained” (Page 97)
“The Christian life is not an exercise in autonomy or self-effort but is lived in dependence on the Holy Spirit” (Page 13)
“Rather, he is saying, ‘It’s in the Bible. Read the Bible. It’s there.’” (Page 102)
“For Luther, the problem was that the false apostles were preaching the gospel plus the law. They were corrupting Christ’s teaching by adding something to it that was unnecessary. To be a Christian is to put one’s trust in the saving work of Jesus Christ. To add anything else to that is to doubt the power of God by implying that it is not enough. The notion that God might somehow need human effort to assist him in the work of salvation struck Luther as preposterous. As he saw it, to add to the gospel was to detract from it and to lead people into slavery to a human theological system that is a caricature of the truth and can only imperil our salvation.” (Page 25)
- Title: Christ Has Set Us Free: Preaching and Teaching Galatians
- Editors: D. A. Carson and Jeff Robinson Sr.
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 176
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Galatians
D. A. Carson (PhD, Cambridge University) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he has taught since 1978. He is a cofounder of the Gospel Coalition and has written or edited nearly 120 books. He and his wife, Joy, have two children and live in the north suburbs of Chicago.
Jeff Robinson Sr. (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a senior editor for the Gospel Coalition and serves as the lead pastor for Christ Community Church of Louisville. He also serves as adjunct professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coauthor of To the Ends of the Earth: Calvin’s Missional Vision and Legacy.