Good News Bible Church's School of Christian Living summer classes will be as follows.

Galatians: The Book of Galatians was written about 49 AD with the purpose of teaching that Christians were free from the restrictive laws of the Jews. Writing to several regional churches, Paul can only “marvel” that Galatian Christians have turned their freedom in Christ back to the rules of Old Testament Judaism. Some people were attempting to compel the early believers to “live as the Jews do” (2:14), an error that even as strong of a believer as the Apostle Peter would make (2:11-13). Paul makes the compelling argument that no man is justified by his works but rather that the just shall live by faith (3:11).

Philippians: This Pauline epistle was written sometime around 60 AD as a “friendship” letter between the apostle and the beloved church. Philippians, with its 16 references to “joy” and “rejoicing”, is one of the apostle’s most “upbeat” letters, in spite of the fact that he was writing it “in bonds” (1:13). A timeless principle we learn when studying this book is that believers throughout the ages can “rejoice in the Lord always” (4:4).

Colossians: Colossians, a Pauline epistle written in the early 60’s AD emphasizes the fact that Jesus Christ is supreme over everything and everyone. Although false teachers had crept into the church at Colossae, adding unnecessary unhelpful elements to their Christian faith, Paul stood firm against this error, addressing it in Colossians. Repeatedly, Paul reminds his readers of the superiority of Christ over Jewish rules and regulations, and angels and anything else because Jesus is “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature” (1:15).

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