Christ Alone series: Week 1 of 8

Galatians 1:1-9

Pastor Mitchell Leach

We begin an eight-week sermon series through the book of Galatians titled Christ Alone. Because this is an overview sermon, the goal is to set the trajectory for the entire series: Galatians confronts the temptation to add something—anything—to faith in Christ as the basis of life with God. Paul insists that God justifies and forms his people by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that returning to law-based righteousness is not spiritual maturity but spiritual regression. Over the coming weeks, we’ll see how the gospel is not just how Christians begin, but how we live—moving from justification to new creation, from slavery to sonship, and from self-effort to Spirit-shaped freedom. This series calls us to turn from every form of self-justific ...