GALATIANS 1

PAUL PROCLAIMS THE ONE TRUE GOSPEL 

Writing to the church in Galatia, Paul expresses concern for how quickly the people have abandoned the message of the gospel. Paul clarifies that there is no other gospel, any other source of salvation is false or distorted. Questions the believers in Galatia, Paul asks if they are aiming to please God or man. Paul warns against seeking the approval of others over the approval of God, boldly claiming that if he were still trying to please man, he would not be a servant of God.

Defending the authority of his message, Paul records that he did not hear the gospel from another man, but directly from Jesus who appeared to him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). Through his transformative experience with Jesus, Paul was transformed from a prosecutor of Christians to a messenger of the gospel. News spread that Paul was preaching the faith he once wanted to destroy, and God was glorified through his conversion.