Reflecting on Our Union in Christ (Galatians 3:26-4:7)

SERMON NOTES

Sermon Series: What Makes Us Family

Sermon Title: Reflecting on Our Union in Christ

Sermon Text: Galatians 3:26-4:7

The Claim (v26)

• The WHAT of the claim: sons of God

• The WHO of the claim: you are all

• The WHEN of the claim: you are

• The WHERE of the claim: in Christ

• The HOW of the claim: through faith

SERMON FOOTNOTES

• QUOTE: Our union in Christ should be seen “not as a leveling and abolishing of all racial, social or gender differences, but as an integration of just such differences into a common participation ‘in Christ’, wherein they enhance (rather than detract from) the unity of the body, and enrich the mutual interdependence and service of its members. In other words, it is a oneness, because such differences cease to be a barrier and cause of pride or regret or embarrassment, and become rather a means to display the diverse richness of God's creation and grace, both in the acceptance of the ‘all’ and in the gifting of each” (James D. G. Dunn, The Epistle to the Galatians, BNTC [Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1993], 207–8).